Rada Mihalcea

Rada Mihalcea is a Professor at the University of Michigan in the Computer Science and Engineering department. She actively promotes Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications for social good and founded the ACL Year Round Mentorship program.

• University: University of Michigan
• School: College of Engineering
• Department: Computer Science and Engineering
• Academic Rank: Professor

Research Interests include:

• Natural Language Processing for social good applications
• Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis
• Deception Detection and Multimodal Analysis
• Cross-Cultural Computational Linguistics
• Educational Technology and Gender Studies

Recent research trends focus on:

• Fake news detection using multimodal features
• Lexicon-based cross-cultural value analysis
• Thermal imaging for affective computing
• Deception detection through linguistic and physiological cues
• Applications in healthcare and counseling analysis

Scientific Awards:

• Sarah Goddard Power Award (2019)
• Best Paper Award at CICLING (2019)
• Best Paper Award at SocInfo (2018)

Additional Contributions:

• Co-authored textbooks on Text Mining and Graph-based NLP
• Developed FunPython tutorial for children
• Collaborative work with the School of Music on the Ada Lovelace Opera
• Active in diversity initiatives in computing