Education
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2015-2020: Ph.D. Computer Science, Rutgers University
Dissertation: Multimodal Communication: Commonsense, Grounding, and Computation
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2016-2018: Cognitive Science Graduate Certificate, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science
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2015-2017: M.Sc. Computer Science, Rutgers University
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2012-2014: M.Sc. Mathematics, University of Hawaii-Manoa
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2008-2012: B.Sc. Mathematics, Iran University of Science and Technology
Awards
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2019: Anita Borg Student Fellowship
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2019: ICLR Travel Scholarship
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2018: Fellowship Award for Excellence in Computation and Data Sciences, Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute.
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2018: Rutgers Graduate School Travel Grant
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2018, 2017: CRA-W Scholarship for Early Career Workshop and the Graduate Cohort
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2014: Graduate Fellowship, the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Invited Talks
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SRI International, 2020
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Brown University, 2020
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Rice University, 2020
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Penn State, 2020
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University of Florida, 2020
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Illinois Tech, 2020
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Mila and UdeM 2020
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University of Pittsburgh, 2020
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University of Southern California, 2019
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Oslo University, 2019
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Tulane University, 2019
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Rutgers Diversity Informatics Institute, 2018
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Hamshire College, 2018
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Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, 2017
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Cornell University, 2014
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Berkeley University, 2014
Professional Services
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Tutorial (w/ Matthew Stone)
Achieving Common Ground in Multimodal Dialogue, Co-located with ACL-2020
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Organizing Committee
The Third Workshop on Spatial Language Understating, Co-located with EMNLP-2020
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Program Committee
EMNLP 2020
ACL 2020
COLING 2020
NeurIPS 2020
IJCAI 2020
ICML 2020
Commonsense Inference in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2019)
ACL 2019 Student Research Workshop
NAACL 2019, Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding and Grounded Communication for Robotics
NAACL 2019, Workshop on Shortcomings in Vision and Language
The 2019 Amsterdam Colloquium Super Linguistics Workshop
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Associate Editor
The Mental Note Journal