The Speakers

Mounika Marreddy

Mounika Marreddy is a postdoctoral researcher at CAISA lab, b-it department, University of Bonn, Germany. Her research interests are in the areas of Natural language Processing, Large Language Models, Robustness, and Interpretability of LLMs. She has presented several research papers in refereed conferences like ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, INTERSPEECH, and ICASSP. She served as a reviewer for all the conferences like ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, and IJCNN.

Subba Reddy Oota

Subba Reddy Oota is postdoctoral researcher at Tu-Berlin, Germany and a visiting scholar at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. His research interests are in the areas of language analysis in the brain, brain encoding, and decoding, grounded language acquisition, robot grounding, geometric deep learning, and brain imaging analysis. He has also presented several research papers in refereed conferences like ACL, NAACL, COLING, INTERSPEECH, ICASSP, CogSci, WACV, IJCNN, ICDAR, ICONIP, and workshop papers at NeurIPS conferences. He served as a reviewer for all the leading conferences like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, INTERSPEECH, ACL, ICASSP, AISTATS, ECML-PKDD, WACV, IJCNN, Cognitive Science Society Annual Conference, and ACM CHIL. He has a good experience in offering tutorials at top conferences like IJCAI, IJCNN and Cogsci.

Manish Gupta

Manish Gupta ( Homepage Link ) is a Principal Applied Researcher at Microsoft AI and Research at Hyderabad, India. He is also an Adjunct Faculty at a premier engineering school in India - International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) and a visiting faculty at the Indian School of Business (ISB). He received his Masters in Computer Science from IIT Bombay in 2007 and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013. With research interests in the areas of deep learning, web mining and information retrieval, he has published more than 150 research papers in referred journals and conferences, including NAACL, EMNLP, COLING, WWW, SIGIR, ECIR, ICDE, KDD, WSDM. He has also co-authored two books: one on Outlier Detection for Temporal Data and another one on Information Retrieval with Verbose Queries.

Manish has a strong track record of teaching. He taught a full credit course on Web Mining, Information Retrieval and Extraction at IIIT-H, India and on Deep Learning at ISB. He has an extensive experience in offering tutorials at top conferences like IJCAI, IJCNN and Cogsci.

Prof. Lucie Flek

Dr. Lucie Flek is a full professor at at CAISA lab, b-it department, University of Bonn, Germany. Also, the NLP head at the Lamarr Institute for ML and AI, leading the research group on Data Science and Language Technologies in Germany. Her interests lie in the area of representation learning and AI robustness, mainly for NLP applications. She has been served as Area Chair at numerous ACL conferences and as editor in multiple AI-oriented journals. She organized a multitude of workshops at AAAI, WWW, NAACL and ACL, most recently the Human-Centered LLMs. She has also presented several research papers in refereed conferences like ACL, NAACL, WWW, SIGIR, LREC-COLING. Apart from her NLP research, she has contributed to particle physics data analyses at CERN.

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