Speakers

Alice Oh (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology) 

Diyi Yang (Stanford University) is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, also affiliated with the Stanford NLP Group, Stanford HCI Group and Stanford Human Centered AI Institute. Her research focuses on human-centered natural language processing and computational social science.  She is a recipient of  IEEE “AI 10 to Watch” (2020), Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship (2021),  NSF CAREER Award (2022), an ONR Young Investigator Award (2023), and a Sloan Research Fellowship (2024).  Her work has received multiple paper awards or nominations at top NLP and HCI conferences, (e.g., Best Paper Honorable Mention at SIGCHI 2019 and Outstanding Paper at ACL 2022). 

Kalika Bali (Microsoft Research Labs India) is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Labs India, where she has dedicated nearly two decades to enhancing human-computer interactions through language technologies. Her focus lies in creating inclusive tech for a diverse range of languages and communities, especially those that are underrepresented. She is particularly interested in how Foundational Models like GPT can impact society, for better or worse. Her recent work navigates the crossroads of multilingual and multicultural AI. She was on the first (2023) TIME100 AI list for her continuing work on breaking down language barriers and fostering inclusivity in the AI sphere.

Luis Chiruzzo (Universidad de la República)

Shalom H. Schwartz (The Hebrew University) is Professor Emeritus of Psychology—the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a past president of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. He has spent the last 40 years seeking to identify the basic human values that are recognized across cultures, to understand the principles that organize values into coherent systems, to develop cross-culturally valid instruments to measure values, and to uncover the many ways that values relate to human behavior and attitudes. His theory of basic values and various measurement instruments have been applied in research in more than 90 countries. 

Xun Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)