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Dong Nguyen is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University's Faculty of Science, Department of Information and Computing Sciences. She leads the NLP and Society Lab and is affiliated with the Utrecht Young Academy. Her research focuses on natural language processing, computational sociolinguistics, and data diversity in NLP.
- PhD (University of Twente, 2014)
- Master's (Carnegie Mellon University, 2009)
- Bachelor's (University of Twente, 2007)
Her research explores computational text analysis for social science questions, measuring NLP model biases, and understanding language variation in digital spaces. She has published extensively on these topics in venues like EMNLP, ACL, and Royal Society Open Science.
Recent publications analyze geographical language variation, urban dictionary semantics, and model evaluation methods. She heads the DataDivers ERC-funded project (2025-2029) investigating data diversity in NLP.
Notable scientific awards:
- ERC Starting Grant (2024)
- KNAW Early Career Award (2019)
- Veni grant (2019)
- Gerrit van Dijk Award (2018)
- Alan Turing Institute Fellowship (2016)
- Fulbright Scholarship (2009)
She has served as Area Chair for ACL, EMNLP, and FAccT conferences, and as Senior Area Chair for EACL and NAACL. Her teaching includes courses on AI research methods, social computing, and human-centered machine learning.
