Service
Teaching
- Adjunct Professor, School of Computer Science, McGill University — Jan 2026 – Present
Tutorials
- Multimodal Large Language Models for Human-AI Interaction: Foundations, Agents, and Inclusive Applications — EACL 2026 [slides]
Workshop Organizer
- Lifelong Agents @ COLM 2026
- New in ML @ ICML 2025
- Vision Language Models For All @ CVPR 2025
- Workshop on Multilingual Multimodal Learning @ ACL 2022
- Workshop on NLP for Medical Conversations @ ACL 2021
- Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP) — 2018, 2019, 2020
- ACL Student Research Workshop — 2017
- Shortcomings in Vision and Language — 2018, 2019
Academic Service
Diversity & Inclusion Chair EACL 2023, EMNLP 2026
Senior Area Chair ACL 2022
Area Chair NAACL,EMNLP, AACL, Women in Machine Learning, AFAA (ICLR 2026)
PC Member
- Africa NLP 2020
- Integrating Generic and Contextual Knowledge (GeCko) 2020
- Workshop on Noisy User-Generated Text (W-NUT) — 2020, 2021
- Workshop Beyond Vision and LANguage: inTEgrating RealWorld kNowledge (LANTERN) — 2019, 2020
- Methods for Optimizing and Evaluating Neural Language Generation Workshop (NeuralGen) — 2019
- Ethics in NLP — 2017, 2018
- Generalization in Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing (GenDep) — 2018
- Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media — 2016-2018
Reviewer (2011-Present) TACL, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, ARR, ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, IJCAI, COLING, EACL, IWSLT, *SEM, WiML, ALTA
Mentoring
I have mentored and collaborated with more than 20 students, several of whom are now working at Amazon AGI, Microsoft AI, Google DeepMind, and Salesforce Research.
Career Support: Several junior research engineers and scientists (ServiceNow AI Research, CoreLLM-ServiceNow, Amazon AI), Deep Learning INDABA, high school/young university students (AI for Good Lab, Mila Quebec), WiML mentor.