Vote for the external keynote speaker of SouthNLP 2024
Choi, Jinho
Dear SouthNLP folks,
Thank you all for participating in the survey. Here is a summary:
Program Committee
We are grateful for inviting the following members to the program committee this year:
- Bhuwan Dhingra, Assistant Professor, Duke University
- Ruihong Huang, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
- Yen-Ling Kuo, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
- Jessica Ouyang, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas
- Elias Stengel-Eskin, Research Associate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Sandeep Soni, Assistant Professor, Emory University
Internal Keynote Speaker
The following four internal keynote speakers are nominated (ordered alphabetically):
- Mohit Bansal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Eunsol Choi, University of Texas at Austin
- Jinho Choi, Emory University
- Fei Liu, Emory University
We will begin contacting them this week, starting with the one who received the most votes.
External Keynote Speaker
The following four external keynote speakers are nominated (ordered alphabetically):
- Hannaneh Hajishirzi, University of Washington
- Heng Ji, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University
- Denny Zhou, Google DeepMind
Please fill out the following form (it should take less than a minute) to vote for them (or nominate someone else in case none of the above candidates are available): https://forms.gle/k8TU3GPUybaQC4xH8
Thank you again for supporting SouthNLP 2024. We will announce the CFP next week. Have a wonderful week everyone!
Best,
Jinho D. Choi
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Emory University
Address: 400 Dowman Dr, Atlanta, GA 30322
Office: W302F at Math & Science Center
Choi, Jinho
Folks,
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Mohit Bansal from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been selected as the internal keynote speaker with the highest vote. We wish to express our gratitude to Dr. Bansal for accepting our invitation to deliver the keynote speech.
We still need more votes for the external keynote speaker. Please take a minute to vote using this form:
https://forms.gle/k8TU3GPUybaQC4xH8
We will make the first CFP on November 1 and start sending invitations for external speakers so it would be great if you can fill out the form this week.
This is really happening and I’m grateful for all the encouragement and encouragement from you guys. Have a wonderful week everyone!
Best,
Jinho D. Choi
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Emory University
Address: 400 Dowman Dr, Atlanta, GA 30322
Office: W302F at Math & Science Center
Website: https://www.emorynlp.org/faculty/jinho-choi
Choi, Jinho
Dear South NLPers,
Thank you for voting for the external keynote speaker. Below are the results, listed in order of highest to lowest vote count:
- Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University (http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~kathy/)
- Hannaneh Hajishirzi, University of Washington (https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~hannaneh/)
- Denny Zhou, Google DeepMind (https://dennyzhou.github.io)
- Heng Ji, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (https://blender.cs.illinois.edu/hengji.html)
We will reach out to each scholar in order with hopes of securing a keynote speech. Please let us know if you have any questions or comments on any part of the symposium. We will make the first CFP this Wednesday.
Have a wonderful week!
Best,
Jinho D. Choi
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Emory University
Address: 400 Dowman Dr, Atlanta, GA 30322
Office: W302F at Math & Science Center
Website: https://www.emorynlp.org/faculty/jinho-choi
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