Yllias Chali

Yllias Chali is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Lethbridge, Canada. His research focuses on Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Language Technologies, with a focus on text summarization, question answering, and knowledge representation. He has supervised numerous graduate students and secured funding from NSERC for projects in these areas.

Teaching: Courses include Fundamentals of Programming I, Artificial Intelligence, and Statistical Methods and Machine Learning.

Research Trends: Recent publications emphasize abstractive text summarization using BART, graph attention networks, multi-hop question generation, and faithfulness in NLP models. His work integrates machine learning, syntactic analysis, and semantic modeling.

Advising: Collaborates with graduate students on NLP projects, including Narjes Delpisheh and Elozino Egonmwan. Funded by NSERC.

Labs & Teams: Leads NLP research initiatives at the University of Lethbridge, contributing to computational linguistics and machine learning advancements.