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Awards & Honors
Invited to speak at the Federal Information Integrity R\&D Interagency Working Group (IIRD IWG) briefing, 2023
Selected as a Young Scientist to attend the 6th World Laureates Association Forum, 2023
Selected Participant for DARPA AI Forward Workshop, 2023
Women Leaders of Conversational AI by Project Voice, Class of 2023
The 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT2021) Best Demo Paper Award, 2021
The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2020) Best Demo Paper Award, 2020
Amazon Scholar, 2019-Present
Selected as Panelist of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2019-Present
ACL2018 Best Demo Paper Nomination
Invited by the Secretary of the US Air Force and AFRL to join the Air Force Data Analytics Expert Panel to inform the Air Force Strategy 2030, 2018
RPI Trustee Celebration of Faculty Achievement, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
World Economic Forum Global Future Council Member on the Future of Computing, 2016-Present
"Young Scientist" selected by World Economic Forum, 2016-2017
NLPCC2016 Best Student Paper Award, 2016
IBM Watson Faculty Award, 2014-2015
Google Research Award, 2014-2015
"Best of ICDM2013" paper by Knowledge and Information Systems, 2013
"Best of SDM2013" paper by Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, 2013
"AI's Top 10 to Watch" Award by IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2013
Edward P. Hamilton Development Chair Professorship, 2013-Present
CUNY Employee Recognition Award, 2013
CUNY Chancellor's "Salute to Scholar" Award, 2012
IBM Watson Faculty Award, 2012
PACLIC Best Paper Runner-up, 2012
CUNY Junior Faculty Research Award in Science and Engineering, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2012
CUNY Chancellor's "Salute to Scholar" Award, 2010
U.S. National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2010-2015
Google Research Award, 2009-2010
Computing Research Association Travel Scholarship, 2008
Sigma Xi Member, 2007-Present
Grace Hopper Woman in Computing Scholarship, 2006/li>
Sandra Bleistein Prize, 2006
McCracken Program Fellowship, 2002-2007
Current Research Grants
DARPA Environment-driven Conceptual Learning (ECOLE), 2023-Present
DARPA Knowledge-directed Artificial Intelligence Reasoning Over Schemas (KAIROS), 2019-2024
NSF AI Institute on Exceptional Education, 2023-Present
DARPA In the Moment (ITM)}, 2023-Present
DARPA Semantic Forensics (SemaFor), 2020-Present
DARPA AIE Modeling Influence Pathways (MIPs)}, 2022-Present
DARPA Computational Cultural Understanding (CCU), 2022-Present
DARPA Influence Campaign Awareness and Sensemaking (INCAS), 2021-Present
NSF AI Institute on Molecular Synthesis, 2020-Present
NSF AI Institute on Agriculture, 2020-Present
DoE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, 2022-Present
Past Research Grants
NSF IIS Medium, Scientific Discovery via Knowledge Extraction, 2017-2023
DARPA Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives (AIDA), 2017-2023
Amazon AWS Cloud Credits for Research, 2021-2022
DARPA GAILA, Multi-media Language Acquisition, 2019-2022
DARPA LORELEI, Exploiting Language Information for Situational Awareness (ELISA), 2015-2022
DARPA Causal Exploration of Complex Operational Environments (CauseEx), 2017-2021
IARPA Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language (MATERIAL), 2017-2021
Army Research Lab Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance, 2009-2019
Tencent AI Lab Rhino-Bird Gift Fund, 2019
NSF Building Innovative Capacity (BIC), 2016-2019
Edward P. Hamilton Development Chair Professorship, 2013-2019
DARPA Seedling Award, Cross-media IE, 2015-2017
Bosch Research Award, 2014-2018
DARPA Deep Exploration and Filtering of Text (DEFT), 2012-2017
NSF CAREER Award, 2010-2017
IARPA Mercury, 2016-2017
Google Research Award, 2014-2016
Air Force Research Laboratory DREAM, 2014-2016
DHS Center of Excellence for Command, Control and Interoperability, 2014-2016
IBM Watson Faculty Award, 2014-2015
Disney Research Award, 2014-2015
Consultant to Altima, AFRL, 2013-2014
IBM Watson Faculty Award, 2012-2013
NSF IGERT Award, 2012-2016
DARPA Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT), 2011-2013
NSF EAGER Award, 2011-2013
CUNY Junior Faculty Research Award in Science and Engineering, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2012
DARPA Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE), 2008-2011
NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates Award, 2011-2013
PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2010-2012
CUNY Faculty Publication Fellowship, 2009-2010
Google Research Award, 2009-2010
NSF-sponsored JHU Summer Workshop on Unsupervised Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge from N-Grams, 2009
CUNY GRTI Program, 2008-2010
CUNY Research Enhancement Program, 2008-2010