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Christopher Potts is Professor and Chair of Linguistics at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment as Professor of Computer Science. He serves as Director Emeritus of the Stanford Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) and leads the Pragmatic Enrichment & Contextual Interface Lab. His work bridges theoretical linguistics and computational approaches to language understanding. Education: B.A. in Linguistics from New York University (1999) Ph.D. in Linguistics from University of California, Santa Cruz (2003) Potts' research focuses on how computational methods can illuminate linguistic phenomena, particularly in the areas of semantics, pragmatics, and sentiment analysis. His work explores how emotion is expressed in language and how linguistic production and interpretation are influenced by context. He has made significant contributions to understanding conventional implicatures, sentiment analysis frameworks, and the application of neural networks to linguistic problems. His recent work has increasingly focused on the interpretability of large language models and the development of frameworks like DSPy for building reliable AI systems. An analysis of Potts' recent publications reveals a strong trend toward the intersection of linguistic theory and practical AI applications. His work spans theoretical linguistics (e.g., compositionality, preposing constructions), neural network interpretability, and practical NLP systems (e.g., ColBERT, DSPy). The research demonstrates consistent focus on making language models more transparent, controllable, and linguistically informed, with particular attention to how context shapes meaning. Scientific Awards: Best Paper Award at 2024 ACL for 'Mission: Impossible Language Models' Outstanding Paper Award at 2024 ACL for 'CausalGym' ACL Test of Time Award 2023 Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching (2015-2016) Best New Data Set or Resource Award at 2015 EMNLP Potts has secured numerous research grants as PI or Co-PI from major organizations including Google, Amazon, NSF, Office of Naval Research, and Stanford's HAI institute. His current projects focus on evaluation of retrieval-augmented generation systems, LLM-mediated communication in organizations, interpretability techniques for language models, and frameworks like DSPy for building next-generation AI systems. He has mentored numerous researchers who have gone on to make significant contributions in NLP and computational linguistics. As Director of CSLI (2013-2020) and current Chair of Linguistics at Stanford, Potts has played a key leadership role in shaping interdisciplinary research at the intersection of language, computation, and cognition. His Pragmatic Enrichment & Contextual Interface Lab continues to be a hub for innovative research combining formal linguistic theory with cutting-edge computational methods.

• Computational Linguistics
• Natural Language Processing
• Semantics
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Yu-Ru Lin is an Associate Professor at the School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh, and serves as Research & Academic Director at the Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security (Pitt Cyber). She leads the Pitt Computational Social Dynamics Lab (PICSO Lab) and holds secondary appointments in Political Science, Computer Science, and the Intelligent Systems Program. PhD in Computer Science from Arizona State University Postdoctoral research at Harvard University and Northeastern University Her research focuses on computational approaches for: Networked social dynamics High-dimensional social information summarization Trust and distrust propagation Misinformation detection Policy diffusion analysis Recent publications span 2014-2020, covering: Social media crisis response Graph visualization techniques Policy diffusion patterns Misinformation mitigation Temporal topic modeling Scientific support includes: National Science Foundation (NSF) awards Minerva/ONR funding AFOSR grant for distrust modeling DARPA Understanding Group Biases program As director of PICSO Lab, she leads interdisciplinary research teams on: Digital accountability Urban mobility patterns Health informatics via crowdsourcing Trust-influence dynamics

• Computational Social Science
• Network Science
• Data Visualization
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Sebastian Scherer is an Associate Research Professor at the Robotics Institute (RI), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where he leads cutting-edge research in autonomous aerial systems and robotics. His work focuses on enabling unmanned rotorcraft to operate safely and efficiently in cluttered, low-altitude, and extreme environments. Education: Ph.D. in Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University (2010) MS in Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University (2007) BS in Computer Science (Minor in Robotics), Carnegie Mellon University (2004) His research interests span robotics, artificial intelligence, autonomous navigation, obstacle avoidance, SLAM, visual-inertial odometry, energy infrastructure, and public policy . He has made seminal contributions to UAV autonomy, including the first obstacle avoidance for micro aerial vehicles in natural environments (2008) and the first automatic landing zone detection and landing on a full-size helicopter (2010). His recent publications (2023–2025) demonstrate a strong focus on resilient autonomy, multi-robot exploration, foundation models for robotics, and large-scale dataset development. His team has released key datasets like TartanGround , BETTY , and SubT-MRS , and simulation tools like Pegasus Simulator , indicating a systems-level approach to advancing real-world autonomy. The research trends emphasize self-supervised learning, robust perception, risk-aware planning, and multi-modal fusion for off-road and urban environments. Scientific Awards: Popular Science Best of What's New 2010 Award AIAA@Infotech Best Paper Runner-up Award (2010) Siebel Scholar Dr. Scherer has advised numerous students and leads a vibrant research group focused on high-impact robotics applications. He has secured significant grants related to UAV autonomy, energy infrastructure, and urban air mobility. His lab develops experimental infrastructure such as AIrTonomy for testing next-generation autonomous aerial vehicles. He is actively involved in advancing SLAM and localization in extreme environments, notably through participation in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. His team develops large-scale datasets and benchmarking frameworks to push the boundaries of robustness and generalization in mobile robotics.

• Robotics
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Autonomous Navigation
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Ceren Budak is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the College of Engineering. Her work bridges computer science, statistics, and social sciences through computational social science approaches. Her educational background includes a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2012) and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Bilkent University in Turkey (2007). Prior to joining the University of Michigan faculty, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research New York. Professor Budak's research centers on computational social science, with particular emphasis on analyzing large-scale datasets to address questions with social, political, and policy implications. Her work spans several interconnected domains: News Media Production & Consumption (examining bias in news outlets and reader preferences), Social Movements & Media (using social media data to study collective action), Social Networks (understanding information diffusion processes), and Measuring and Promoting the Quality of Online Discussions (developing tools to improve online conversations). She teaches SI 608 (Networks) and SI 618 (Data Manipulation and Analysis) at the School of Information. Her publication record demonstrates consistent contributions to understanding how online information ecosystems operate, with recent work focusing on AI-human collaboration, misinformation dynamics, social movement framing, and the application of computational methods to political communication. Her research shows a clear trajectory from foundational work on social network diffusion to increasingly sophisticated analyses of contemporary information challenges. Among her service activities, she has served as Registration chair for COSN (ACM Conference on Online Social Networks) 2015 and as Program Committee Member for numerous prestigious conferences including WWW, ICWSM, WebSci, AAAI, and others. She has also been involved in organizing the MSR NYC Data Science Seminar Series and instructing the Microsoft Research Data Science Summer School.

• Computational Social Science
• Social Media Analysis
• News Media Production and Consumption
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Nihar B. Shah is an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University with joint appointments in the Machine Learning and Computer Science departments within the School of Computer Science. His research focuses on developing theoretically grounded algorithms for evaluating scientific work, with applications in peer review, fairness, and human-AI collaboration. His work has impacted over 100,000 research papers and grant evaluations. Education: Ph.D. in EECS, UC Berkeley M.E. in Telecommunications, Indian Institute of Science B.Tech. in Electronics, NIT Karnataka Research Interests: Shah's group investigates the science of evaluation through machine learning, optimization, and large-scale experiments. Key areas include peer review systems, algorithmic fairness, LLM applications in science, and human-AI collaboration frameworks. Research addresses fundamental questions about research validity, funding allocation, and equitable assessment. Publication Trends: Recent work focuses on improving peer review through randomized controlled trials, security against collusion, LLM-based review systems, and bias mitigation. Publications consistently appear in premier venues (NeurIPS, PLOS ONE, AAAI) with growing emphasis on real-world deployments. Awards & Honors: Young Alumnus Medal (IISc 2024) NSF CAREER Award (2020-2025) Google Research Scholar Award (2021) Multiple best paper awards (HCOMP, ICLR) Research Group & Funding: Leads a focused research team with NSF, Google, and JP Morgan support. Alumni hold positions in academia and industry. Current projects involve large-scale evaluations of scientific work and algorithmic fairness.

• Machine Learning
• Peer Review Systems
• Algorithmic Fairness
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Steve Mussmann serves as an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he joined in Fall 2024. His research centers on data-centric machine learning, with emphasis on active labeling, data selection, and adaptive experimental design methodologies. He maintains active collaborations through Georgia Tech's Foundations of AI (FoAI) and ML@GT research groups. Mussmann earned his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2021 under Percy Liang's supervision, following a BS in Math, Statistics, and Computer Science from Purdue University in 2015. His professional trajectory includes a machine learning researcher role at Coactive AI and an IFDS postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington's Paul Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. His research program investigates theoretical and practical aspects of data efficiency in machine learning systems, particularly focusing on active learning frameworks, statistical properties of data algorithms under concept drift, and task specification via prompts or demonstrations. Current projects address challenges in label-efficient training of large language models and multimodal dataset development. Analysis of his 15 most recent publications reveals a consistent focus on advancing data-centric methodologies, with increasing emphasis on large-scale applications like multimodal datasets and language model fine-tuning. His work bridges theoretical guarantees in experimental design with practical frameworks like LabelBench for benchmarking label efficiency. Mussmann has received recognition through the IFDS postdoctoral fellowship. His contributions to the field include foundational work on active learning theory and data selection algorithms. IFDS postdoctoral fellow He currently advises five graduate students including PhD candidates Kangping Hu (CS) and Hangyu Zhou (ML), alongside MS students Kabir Kang and Kalp Vyas, and undergraduate Saloni Bedi. Former advisee Wei-Liang (Edison) Liao completed BS research under his supervision. His teaching portfolio includes graduate courses CS 7545 (Machine Learning Theory) and CS 8803-DML (Data-centric Machine Learning). Mussmann operates within Georgia Tech's Foundations of AI initiative and ML@GT collective, which provide infrastructure for large-scale data-centric research. His lab develops open-source tools like LabelBench for reproducible evaluation of data selection techniques, with ongoing projects exploring video data exploration systems and adaptive finetuning frameworks for foundation models.

• Data-centric machine learning
• Active learning
• Experimental design
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Professor Christian Bizer is a leading figure in web-based systems and data integration at the University of Mannheim , where he chairs Information Systems V: Web-based Systems . His research focuses on integrating data from multiple sources using large language models and LLM-based agents, with applications in product data extraction and DBpedia knowledge graph construction. He co-founded the DBpedia project and initiated the WebDataCommons initiative. Current research areas: Entity matching, schema matching, table annotation, information extraction, data discovery Key projects: WebMall benchmark, WInte.r integration framework, Schema.org analysis His work applies to e-commerce data integration and knowledge graph construction, with empirical studies on schema.org adoption. He supervises PhD students including Alexander Brinkmann and Ralph Peeters. Scientific Awards: Best Paper at iiWAS 2024 SWSA Ten-Year Award at ISWC 2019 Yahoo FREP Award 2015 Semantic Web Challenge winners Teaching includes courses on web data integration, web mining, large language models, and data mining for master's programs. He leads the DWS PhD colloquium and team projects on LLM agents for data integration.

• Data Integration
• Entity Matching
• Schema Matching
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Julian McAuley is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering. His research spans recommender systems, machine learning, natural language processing, music information retrieval, and multimodal learning. He maintains an active research group with numerous PhD students and postdocs working on cutting-edge AI problems. His research interests focus on developing advanced algorithms for personalized recommendation systems, with particular emphasis on sequential recommendation, multimodal learning, and integrating large language models with traditional recommendation approaches. His work bridges the gap between theoretical machine learning and practical applications across multiple domains including e-commerce, music, and healthcare. McAuley has published extensively in top-tier conferences including NeurIPS, ICML, KDD, SIGIR, and ACL, with his most recent work exploring the intersection of large language models and recommendation systems. His publications reveal a strong trend toward multimodal approaches that combine text, vision, and audio for more comprehensive understanding and recommendation. He has received significant research funding from major technology companies including Google, Amazon, Facebook, Adobe, and Samsung, as well as government agencies like the National Science Foundation and Department of Defense. His work has practical applications across multiple industries, with a focus on improving user experience through better personalization. McAuley advises numerous PhD students who have gone on to successful careers at leading technology companies and academic institutions. His former students include Wang-Cheng Kang and Jianmo Ni at Google DeepMind, Chris Donahue and Zachary Lipton as assistant professors at CMU, and Ruining He at Google Deepmind.

• Recommender Systems
• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing
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James Glass is a Senior Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and heads the Spoken Language Systems Group within MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is also affiliated with the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. His research spans automatic speech recognition, multimodal learning, and spoken language understanding, with applications in healthcare and video analysis. Education: SM and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT His work focuses on paralinguistic speech analysis, health markers in speech, and the intersection of speech and natural language processing. Recent trends emphasize audio-visual alignment, recursive reasoning, and AI applications in cognitive disorder diagnosis. Scientific awards include IEEE Fellow, ISCA Fellow, and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. His group explores unsupervised learning, speaker verification, and social text analysis. James leads the Spoken Language Systems Group at CSAIL, collaborating with institutions like IBM and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. His research integrates vision-language models, neural audio codecs, and self-supervised frameworks.

• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Speech Recognition
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Madelon Hulsebos is a Researcher at CWI in Amsterdam, where she leads the Table Representation Learning (TRL) Lab and contributes to the Database Architectures group. She is also a faculty member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) Amsterdam unit. Her career bridges academia and industry, including a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley and prior industry experience in automating data analysis pipelines with ML. Education : PhD in Computer Science (University of Amsterdam, 2023), with research at Sigma Computing and MIT; Postdoctoral Fellow (UC Berkeley, 2024). Her research focuses on establishing tabular data as a key AI modality through Table Representation Learning , generative models for relational data, and robust systems for data analysis. Key interests include: Relational Table Embeddings LLMs for QA/text2SQL and data wrangling Retrieval over Data Lakes and Databases Agentic Systems for Data Science Democratizing insights from structured data Recent work highlights trends in benchmarking table retrieval (TARGET), semantic column detection (AdaTyper, Sherlock), and large-scale tabular data curation (GitTables, SchemaPile). These projects address challenges in metadata utilization, data lake search, and end-to-end systems for structured data. She has secured significant funding, including the NWO AiNed Fellowship Grant ($1M) for her 5-year DataLibra project. Madelon organizes workshops at NeurIPS , SIGMOD , and ACL , and reviews for top venues like VLDB and NeurIPS. Scientific Awards : NWO AiNed Fellowship Grant ($1M) She actively mentors students and collaborates on European AI initiatives, including monthly TRL seminars and workshops. Her lab's tools (GitTables, TARGET) are widely adopted for training foundation models on tabular data.

• Table Representation Learning
• Generative Models for Tabular Data
• Semantic Data Type Detection
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Ellen Riloff serves as Department Head and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Arizona, where she leads research at the intersection of natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence. Her work bridges theoretical advancements with real-world applications in social computing, planetary science, and crisis response systems. Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1994) Research Focus: Dr. Riloff specializes in affective computing and information extraction , developing techniques to recognize emotion, social cues, and embodied expressions in text. Her methodologies frequently employ bootstrapping, stacked learning, and semantic lexicon induction. Recent projects address crisis informatics (e.g., social cue recognition in emergencies) and interdisciplinary applications like the Mars Target Encyclopedia for planetary science data extraction. Publication Trends: Analysis of her 15 most recent publications (2021–2025) reveals three dominant trajectories: (1) affective event modeling in social contexts with applications to crisis response; (2) domain-specific NLP for planetary science and food systems; and (3) advanced language model techniques including retrieval-augmented generation and multi-view prompting. Her work increasingly integrates deep learning with traditional linguistic features. Grants and Leadership: Dr. Riloff has directed multiple NSF-funded projects, including RI: Small: Recognizing Implicit Personal States in Natural Language (2016) and RI: Small: Acquiring Domain Knowledge from Text through Cooperative Bootstrapping (2010). These initiatives pioneered bootstrapping frameworks for affective event recognition and information extraction. She also co-organized the Workshop on Pattern-based Approaches to NLP (2023), highlighting her leadership in advancing hybrid NLP methodologies. Collaborative Infrastructure: She co-developed the Mars Target Encyclopedia—a large-scale information extraction system that processes planetary science literature to create structured databases of Mars surface targets. This project demonstrates her commitment to building reusable scientific infrastructure through NLP.

• Natural Language Processing
• Artificial Intelligence
• Sentiment Analysis
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Matthias Feurer is a Thomas Bayes Fellow and interim professor at the Chair of Statistical Learning and Data Science, funded by the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He is a member of the Department of Statistics at LMU Munich, working under Prof. Dr. Bernd Bischl. His academic background includes: PhD in Computer Science from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, supervised by Prof. Dr. Frank Hutter M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Freiburg B.Sc. in Computer Science and Media from the Media University Stuttgart Feurer's research focuses on simplifying machine learning usage through Automated Machine Learning (AutoML). His work encompasses hyperparameter optimization, meta-learning, and model selection, with increasing emphasis on multi-objective AutoML that considers factors beyond predictive performance such as interpretability, deployability, and fairness. He actively develops open-source tools to advance the field. His recent publications demonstrate a strong trajectory in practical AutoML systems, with growing attention to tabular machine learning, foundation models integration, and addressing real-world constraints in optimization. His work consistently bridges theoretical advances with practical implementations through several widely-used open-source projects. Notable achievements include: 1st place in the warmstarting-friendly leaderboard of the BBO NeurIPS challenge Winner of the 2nd AutoML challenge Winner of the kdnuggets blog contest on AutoML Feurer is actively mentoring and teaching, having advertised PhD positions focused on AutoML, optimization, and benchmarking. He co-founded the Open Machine Learning Foundation supporting OpenML.org. His upcoming move to TU Dortmund as an assistant professor in AutoML and Optimization signals continued growth in his academic career while maintaining his research focus on making machine learning more accessible and rigorous.

• Automated Machine Learning
• Hyperparameter Optimization
• Bayesian Optimization
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Renée J. Miller is a Professor and Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Intelligence at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on data integration, data management, and open data systems. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Cognitive Science from MIT. Her work addresses challenges in data preparation, integration, and curation, aiming to reduce the burden on data scientists. She co-authored foundational papers on data exchange and schema mapping, earning the ICDT Test-of-Time Award (2013) and the Alonzo Church Award (2020). Miller has led major initiatives like the NSERC Business Intelligence Network and the International Very Large Data Base Foundation. Her grants include NSERC Accelerator Awards and funding from IBM, SAP, and Microsoft. Notable students include Ariel Fuxman (SIGMOD Dissertation Award winner) and Oktie Hassanzadeh (IBM PhD Fellow). Her research group, the Miller Lab, develops tools like Clio for schema mapping and systems for data lake exploration (RONIN, JOSIE).

• Data Integration
• Data Management
• Data Preparation
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Nils Holzenberger is an Assistant Professor at Télécom Paris, France, since February 2023, affiliated with the Data Intelligence Graphs (DIG) research team within the Information Processing and Communication Laboratory (LTcI). His work bridges artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and legal domains through neuro-symbolic approaches to statutory reasoning, particularly in tax law. Education: PhD in Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University (2017-2022) Master's in Engineering, Mines ParisTech (2013-2017) Preparatory Classes, Lycée Louis-le-Grand (2011-2013) Holzenberger's research centers on legal artificial intelligence with emphasis on statutory reasoning limitations in large language models. He pioneered the SARA dataset for tax law reasoning and LegalBench benchmark, developing hybrid symbolic-neural frameworks that expose LLMs' shortcomings in precise legal interpretation. His work integrates Prolog solvers with NLP techniques to create executable tax code mappings and contract analysis tools, establishing foundational methods for verifiable legal AI systems. Analysis of his 15 most recent publications (2019-2024) reveals three dominant research thrusts: (1) Tax law reasoning benchmarks exposing LLM hallucinations, (2) Neuro-symbolic integration for statutory interpretation, and (3) Low-resource template extraction for legal documents. His work consistently demonstrates that pure neural approaches fail at precise legal reasoning, necessitating symbolic grounding for reliable legal AI applications. The DIG research team at Télécom Paris, where Holzenberger leads legal AI initiatives, is actively hiring faculty for neuro-symbolic projects. While specific grant details aren't public, his collaborations with HEC Paris, Copilex startup, and featured podcast appearances indicate substantial industry-academia engagement in legal tech development. Holzenberger directs the legal AI vertical within LTcI's DIG team, focusing on data intelligence for statutory reasoning. His group develops tools for tax minimization strategy discovery, contract analysis, and legal information extraction, maintaining close ties with legal practitioners through projects like the Prolog-based tax code interpreter. The team's infrastructure supports both academic research and startup partnerships in computational law.

• Natural Language Processing
• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal AI
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Gerold Schneider is an Associate Professor at the University of Zurich , affiliated with the Department of Computational Linguistics under the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics . He leads the Text Crunching Center (TCC) , focusing on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of NLP, Digital Humanities, and Health Data Science. Research Interests His work spans Text Analytics , Digital Humanities , Corpus Linguistics , and Health Data Science , with applications in: Biomedical NLP (e.g., Alzheimer’s detection, clinical trials) Digital Humanities projects (e.g., analyzing Charles Dickens, UN archives) Migration discourse framing across languages Adversarial data collection for hate speech detection Interdisciplinary methodologies for digital unstructured data Recent Publications 2025–2024 research highlights include annotated corpora for preclinical and neurological studies, AI-driven analysis of historical linguistic variation, and innovative tools for language learners. His NLP applications address health diagnostics, ethical AI, and cross-lingual political discourse. Labs & Teams As TCC leader, he spearheads collaborative projects within the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) communities (AI & Law, Health, Ethics, etc.), integrating computational methods with humanities and health research.

• Computational Linguistics
• Digital Humanities
• Corpus Linguistics
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