Mohit Bansal — CEO
Webpage: https://www.cs.unc.edu/~mbansal/ Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DN8QtscAAAAJ Twitter account: https://twitter.com/mohitban47 Dr. Mohit Bansal is the John R. & Louise S. Parker Distinguished Professor and the Director of the MURGe-Lab (UNC-NLP Group) in the Computer Science department at UNC Chapel Hill. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2013 and his BTech from IIT Kanpur in 2008. His research expertise is in natural language processing and multimodal machine learning, with a particular focus on multimodal generative models, grounded and embodied semantics, reasoning and planning agents, faithful language generation, and interpretable, efficient, and generalizable deep learning. He is a AAAI Fellow and recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), IIT Kanpur Young Alumnus Award, DARPA Director's Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, Google Focused Research Award, Microsoft Investigator Fellowship, Army Young Investigator Award (YIP), DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA), and outstanding paper awards at ACL, CVPR, EACL, COLING, and CoNLL. He has been a keynote speaker for the AACL 2023, CoNLL 2023, and INLG 2022 conferences. His service includes EMNLP and CoNLL Program Co-Chair, and ACL Executive Committee, ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee, ACL Americas Sponsorship Co-Chair, and Associate/Action Editor for TACL, CL, IEEE/ACM TASLP, and CSL journals. Webpage: https://www.cs.unc.edu/~mbansal/
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Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Experience: 21 yrs 5 mos
Skills
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning
Career Highlights
- AAAI Fellow with multiple prestigious awards.
- Director of MURGe-Lab focusing on NLP and machine learning.
- Keynote speaker at major NLP conferences.
Work Experience
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John R & Louise S Parker Professor, Computer Science Department, UNC Chapel Hill (9 yrs 10 mos)
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTI-Chicago)
Research Assistant Professor (2 yrs 10 mos)
PhD Research Intern (3 mos)
Microsoft
PhD Research Intern (3 mos)
UC Berkeley
PhD + MS (5 yrs)
Cornell University
Summer Research Intern (3 mos)
IIT Kanpur
BTech (3 yrs 9 mos)
Education
PhD + MS at University of California, Berkeley
B.Tech. at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur