Biography

Dr. Fazel Keshtkar is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, ST. JOHN'S University, NYC (SJU), since 2020. Before joining SJU, from 2013-2016, Dr. Keshtkar was an Assistant Professor at Dept. of Computer Science, Southeast Missouri State University Fazel received his Ph.D. and Master's degrees in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa, Canada, in 2011 and 2007, respectively.

Dr. Keshtkar is co-chair for Flair's conference (https://www.flairs-35.info/) from 2020-2023. He also chairs and organizes ANLP Special Track in Flair's conference since 2012: https://sites.google.com/view/flairs-anlp/

Prior, Fazel spent more than two years (2011-2013) as a Research Scientist Fellow at the Institute for Intelligent Systems (IIS) at the University of Memphis working with Prof. Art Graesser in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Dr. Keshtkar led the development of AutoMentor’s Natural Language Processing/Generation module and Question Generation for the Epistemic Educational Game system.

Dr. Keshtkar’s research interests span the fields of Artificial intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing and Generation (NLP/NLG), Computational Linguistics (CL), Machine Learning, and Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS).

He served as a Committee Member for several international Conferences, such as the ACL/NNACL/EACL/Canadian-AI/FLAIRS/QG/ITS/AIED/EDM on Natural Language Processing and ITS. He also is the author/co-author and reviewer of articles and papers in highly reputed journals and conferences.