Invited Speakers
Daniel S. Weld is Thomas J. Cable / WRF Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and manages the Semantic Scholar research group at the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence. After formative education at Phillips Academy, he received bachelor's degrees in both Computer Science and Biochemistry at Yale University in 1982. He landed a Ph.D. from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1988, received a Presidential Young Investigator's award in 1989, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator's award in 1990, was named AAAI Fellow in 1999 and deemed ACM Fellow in 2005. Dan was a founding editor for the Journal of AI Research, was area editor for the Journal of the ACM, guest editor for Computational Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence, and was Program Chair for AAAI-96.
Joyce Chai is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. She has a broad research interest in natural language processing, situated dialogue, human-robot communication, and artificial intelligence. Her recent work has focused on grounded language processing to facilitate situated communication with physical agents. She has served as Program Co-chairs for multiple conferences - most recently the 2020 Annual Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). She is a recipient of several awards including NSF Career Award and Best Long Paper Award from ACL. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University.