Damir Cavar

Dr. Damir Cavar is an Associate Professor at Indiana University Bloomington (IU), affiliated with the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. He holds core faculty positions in the Luddy Artificial Intelligence Center and the IU Quantum Science and Engineering Center. His primary role is in the Department of Linguistics, where he directs the Natural Language Processing Lab and co-organizes the Quantum AI and NLP Study Group.

• Adjunct roles: Cognitive Science Program, Russian and East-European Institute, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies.
• Senior Lifetime Member of ACM and IEEE Senior Member (in process).

Research: Focuses on Quantum AI/NLP, Knowledge Graphs, corpus linguistics, and machine learning. Key projects include:

• Natural Language Qu Kit (NLQK), a quantum NLP library.
• Hoosier Ellipsis Corpus (THEC) for ellipsis analysis.
• QM technologies applied to semantic similarity and NLP ambiguity resolution.

Teaching: Leads advanced courses in NLP, machine learning, and AI at both graduate and honors college levels. Recent courses include 'Advanced NLP', 'Knowledge Graphs and LLMs', and 'Generative AI & Symbolic Knowledge' at ESSLLI 2024.

Awards/Recognition: ACM Senior Membership, leadership in organizing quantum AI/NLP conferences (2024-2025), and contributions to open-source NLP tools.

Outreach: Active in professional societies (SIGAI, SIGMOD, ACL) and maintains a robust GitHub presence with over 80 repositories. Organizes the Quantum AI/NLP Conference 2025 at IU and the QNLP study group.