Giuseppe Carenini

Giuseppe Carenini is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC), holding the role of Director of the UBC Master of Data Science program. He is affiliated with the Faculty of Science and leads multiple research groups including the UBC NLP Group, CANARY, IUI Group, and CAIDA. His research focuses on intersections between Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, and Human-Computer Interaction, with notable contributions to discourse analysis, summarization, and interactive visualization.

He has been recognized with awards such as the SIGDIAL Best Paper Award and ACM TiiS Best Paper Award. His work spans academic leadership, course instruction (e.g., CPSC courses on AI, NLP), and collaborations with industry and sustainability initiatives (e.g., IRES, Data Science Institute). His projects often integrate multimodal data analysis, decision support systems, and adaptive interfaces.

Research Interests:
- Artificial Intelligence: User Modeling, Preference Elicitation, Decision Theory.
- Computational Linguistics: Discourse Analysis, Summarization, Argumentation.
- Human-Computer Interaction: Intelligent Interfaces, Information Visualization.

Publications highlight advancements in neural discourse parsing, topic segmentation, and LLM applications in healthcare and operations research. His work bridges theoretical contributions with practical tools like CONVisIT and T³-Vis for data exploration and model interpretation.