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Asli Celikyilmaz Sr. Principal Researcher Microsoft Research email: asli@ieee.org ![]() ![]() |
Talks |
News:
NEW! Organizing workshop at Nerual Conversational AI at ICLR 2021 on safety, integrity, continual learning, and so much more!
NEW! Tutorial on Neural Text Generation at EMNLP 2020
NEW! Podcast in NLP Highlights [recording], 2020
NEW! Invited Talk Evaluation Methods in NLP Workshop at EMNLP 2020
NEW! Invited Talk on Interaction and Generation at West Coast NLP 2020
NEW! Keynote on Advances in Neural Text Generation at SIGDIAL 2020
NEW! Panel Chair for IEEE SLT 2021
Organized ALVR2020: Advances in Language and Vision Research Workshop at ACL 2020
Organized NLP4CONVAI: NLP for Conversational AI Workshop at ACL 2020
Other academic service:
SIGDIAL 2021 Senoir Area Chair
ACL 2021 Area Chair for Dialog Track
NAACL 2021 Senior Area Chair for Generation Track
ACL 2020 Demo Chair
Associate Editor for IEEE ODSP,
Area Editor for Transactions of ACL (TACL),
Editor for AI Magazine: AAAI Special Issue on Conversational AI,
PC member for ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NIPS, CoNLL, ConvAI.
Research Interests:
My primary research interests are in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, with broader interests in Human Computer Interaction. My research centers on building natural language agents enriched with advanced capabilities to memorize, learn and reason about socaial and physical world. Specifically, my research interests can be grouped into:
- Neural Language Generation: Modeling the long-term context (e.g., modeling of langugue context, pysical environments, etc.); tracking and simulating the world representend in a story or a narrative; teaching agents to learn to write coherently; predicting mental states in narrative by stateful langauge modeling.
- Commonsense Reasoning: Building intelligent machines that understand and reason about the physical and social world, both through vision and language
- Evaluation of Text Generation: Factual consistency and semantic coherence are two of the several important aspects in building accurate text generation systems. My researach investigates evaluation methods that improve long text generation models.
- Language Grounding and Conversational AI: Learning semantic correspondences between language help users in their daily activities by learning from their environments; enriching agents with coherent conversational copabilities by teaching language understanding and response generation.
Selected Invited Talks and Tutorials:
Nov 2020 | Tutorial on "The Amazing World of Neural Text Generation" at EMNLP 2020 [slides] |
Nov 2020 | Invited Talk on "Meta Evaluation of Text Generation" at EVAL4NLP Workshop at EMNLP 2020 |
Oct 2020 | Building Embodied Conversational Agents at the WeCNLP 2020 Summit [video] |
July 2020 | Keynote on Advances in Neural Text Generation at SIGDIAL 2020 [video] |
July 2020 | Invited Talk on "Modeling Discourse in Long-Text Generation" Frontiers of Machine Learning 2020 [video] |
Feb 2020 | A Glimpse of Deep Learning in Text Generation at Yale University |
Dec 2019 | Document Understanding Workshop, NeurIPS, Vancouver Canada |
Oct 2019 | 1. Siri Workshop on Conversational AI, Cambridge, UK |
Oct 2019 | MSR New York Reinforcement Learning Days event, NYC, USA [slides] [video] |
Mar 2019 | Talk on Microsoft Reserach Techfest 2019 |
July 2018 | Invited Tutorial Deep Learning for NLP, at Coling 2018 |
Dec 2017 | Invited Talk NIPS Workshop on Conversational AI |
Dec 2017 | Panelist at NIPS Workshop on Conversational AI |
Sep 2017 | Tutorial on Neural Dialog Systems at Interspeech |
June 2017 | Tutorial on Deep Learning for Conversational Dialog Systems at ACL [slides] |
May 2017 | Tutorial on Neural Dialog Systems at ICASSP |
Nov 2014 | Intelligent Personal Assistants and Signal Processing Challenges, IEEE SPS Santa Clara, |
June 2012 | Language Understanding, Machine Learning Summer School, UC Santa Cruz |
Jun 2011 | Conversational Understanding, BISC Lab in Computer Science, UC Berkeley |
Nov 2010 | Question Answering Made Easy, Int. Computer Science Institute, Berkeley |
Apr 2009 | Question Answering Effort in BISC Lab IEEE Int. Conf. Semantic Computing, Stanford University |
Full List of Publications:
Recent Preprints:
Coming soon...
Asli Celikyilmaz, Elizabeth Clark, Jianfeng Gao
arXiv:2006.14799, 2020
Peer-Reviewed Publications:
2021
Yichen Jiang, Asli Celikyilmaz, Paul Smolensky, Paul Soulos, Sudha Rao, Mohit Bansal, Hamid Palangi, Roland Fernandez, Caitlin Smith, Jianfeng Gao
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2021.
Ming Zhong, Da Yin, Tao Yu, Ahmad Zaidi, Mutethia Mutuma, Rahul Jha, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Asli Celikyilmaz, Yang Liu, Xipeng Qiu and Dragomir Radev
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2021.
Saadia Gabriel, Antoine Bosselut, Jeff Da, Ari Holtzman, Jan Buys, Kyle Lo, Asli Celikyilmaz and Yejin Choi
European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2021
Woon Sang Cho, Yizhe Zhang, Sudha Rao, Asli Celikyilmaz, Chenyan Xiong, Jianfeng Gao, Mengdi Wang, Bill Dolan
European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2021
Keping Bi, Rahul Jha, W. Bruce Croft, Asli Celikyilmaz
European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2021
[code]
Ramakanth Pasunuru, Asli Celikyilmaz, Michel Galley, Chenyan Xiong, Yizhe Zhang, Mohit Bansal, Jianfeng Gao
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021
2020
Hannah Rashkin, Asli Celikyilmaz, Yejin Choi, Jianfeng Gao
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
[code] [media] [Reidl Blog]
Homero Roman Roman, Yonatan Bisk, Jesse Thomason, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jianfeng Gao
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) Findings, 2020
[code]
Allison Hegel, Sudha Rao, Asli Celikyilmaz and Bill Dolan
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
Rahul Jha, Keping Bi, Yang Li, Mahdi Pakdaman, Asli Celikyilmaz, Ivan Zhiboedov, Kieran McDonald
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Eval4NLP Workshop, 2020
Ricky Loynd, Roland Fernandez, Asli Celikyilmaz, Adith Swaminathan, Matthew Hausknecht
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020
[code]
Angela Lin, Sudha Rao, Asli Celikyilmaz, Elnaz Nouri, Chris Brockett, Debadeepta Dey and Bill Dolan
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020
Roshan Rao, Debadeepta Dey, Sudha Rao, Elnaz Nouri, Asli Celikyilmaz, and Bill Dolan
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshop on Multimodal Learning, 2020
Xin Wang, Qiuyuan Huang, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jianfeng Gao, Dinghan Shen, YF Wang, William Wang
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2020
Yangfeng Ji, Antoine Bosselut, Thomas Wolf, Asli Celikyilmaz
"Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Tutorial Abstract
2019
Xiujun Li, Chunyuan Li, Qiaolin Xia, Yonatan Bisk, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jianfeng Gao, Noah A. Smith and Yejin Choi
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2019
Antoine Bosselut, Hannah Rashkin, Maarten Sap, Chaitanya Malaviya, Asli Celikyilmaz and Yejin Choi
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019
[code] [demo] [media]
Dinghan Shen, Asli Celikyilmaz, Yizhe Zhang, Liqun Chen, Xin Wang, Jianfeng Gao, Lawrence Carin
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019
Dinghan Shen, Pengyu Cheng, Dhanasekar Sundararaman, Xinyuan Zhang, Asli Celikyilmaz, Lawrence Carin
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019
Elizabeth Clark, Asli Celikyilmaz, Noah Smith
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019
Xin Wang, Qiuyuan Huang, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jianfeng Gao, Dinghan Shen, Yuan-Fang Weng, William Yang Wang, Lei Zhang
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019
[demo] *Best Student Paper Award
Andrew Hoang, Antoine Bosselut, Asli Celikyilmaz, Yejin Choi
arXiv:1906.00138, 2019
Hao Fu, Chunyuan Li, Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao, Asli Celikyilmaz, Lawrence Carin
North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2019
Qiuyuan Huang, Zhe Gan, Asli Celikyilmaz, Oliver Wu, Jianfeng Wang, Xiaodong He
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019
2018
Antoine Bosselut, Asli Celikyilmaz, Xiaodong He, Jianfeng Gao, Po-sen Huang, and Yejin Choi
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2018.
Asli Celikyilmaz, Antoine Bosselut, Xiaodong He, and Yejin Choi
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2018.
Roland Fernandez, Asli Celikyilmaz, Rishabh Singh, Paul Smolensky
International Conference on Representation Learning (ICLR), 2018.
Asli Celikyilmaz, Li Deng, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing (Springer Book Editors Li Deng and Yang Liu), 2018.
Gokhan Tur, Asli Celikyilmaz, Xiaodong He, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Li Deng
Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing (Springer Book Editors Li Deng and Yang Liu), 2018.
2017
Xiujun Li, Yun-Nung Chen, Lihong Li, Jianfeng Gao, Asli Celikyilmaz
8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), 2017.
Yun-Nung Chen, Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017
Baolin Peng, Xiujun Li, Lihong Li, Jianfeng Gao, Asli Celikyilmaz, Sungjin Lee, Kam-Fai Wong
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2017
Xiujun Li, Yun-Nung Chen, Lihong Li, Jianfeng Gao, Asli Celikyilmaz
arXiv:1703.07055, 2017
Asli Celikyilmaz, Li Deng, Lihong Li, Chong Wang
arXiv:1702.08653, 2017
2016
Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Gokhan Tur, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jianfeng Gao, Li Deng
IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), 2016.
Ruhi Sarikaya, Paul A. Crook, Alex Marin, Minwoo Jeong, Jean-Philippe Robichaud, Asli Celikyilmaz, Young-Bum Kim, Alexandre Rochette, Omar Z. Khan, Derek (Xiaohu) Liu, Daniel Boies, Tasos Anastasakos, Zhaleh Feizollahi, Nikhil Ramesh, Hisami Suzuki, Roman Holenstein, Elizabeth Krawczyk, Vasiliy Radostev
2016 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, 2016.
Tarik Arici, Asli Celikyilmaz
NIPS Workshop on Generative Adversarial Networks, 2016.
Joo-Kyung Kim, Gokhan Tur, Asli Celikyilmaz, Bin Cao, Ye-Yi Wang
IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), 2016.
Yun-Nung Chen, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Gokhan Tur, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jianfeng Gao, Li Deng
arXiv:1609.03286, 2016.
Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Gokhan Tur, Yun-Nung Vivian Chen
2016.
Asli Celikyilmaz, Ruhi Sarikaya, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Xiaohu Liu, Nikhil Ramesh, Gokhan Tur
Proceedings of The 17th Annual Meeting of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2016).
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Asli Celikyilmaz, Yun-Nung Vivian Chen, Jianfeng Gao, Li Deng, Ye-Yi Wang
Proceedings of The 17th Annual Meeting of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2016).
Paul A. Crook, Alex Marin, V. Agarwal, K. Aggarwal, T. Anastasakos, R. Bikkula, D. Boies, Asli Celikyilmaz, S. Chandramohan, Z. Feizollahi, R. Holenstein, M. Jeong, Omar Zia Khan, Young-Bum Kim, E. Krawczyk, X. Liu, D. Panic, V. Radostev, N. Ramesh, J.-P. Robichaud, A. Rochette, L. Stromberg, Ruhi Sarikaya
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017.
2015
Asli Celikyilmaz, Ruhi Sarikaya, Anoop Deoras, Minwoo Jeong
Vol 24(6): pp. 994-1005
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2015.
Xiaohu Liu, Asli Celikyilmaz, Ruhi Sarikaya
IEEE - Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), 2015.
Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for SLU & Interaction, 2015.
Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
IEEE - International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015.
Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Panupong Pasupat Ruhi Sarikaya
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2015.
2014
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Asli Celikyilmaz, Geoffrey Zweig
IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT) Lake Tahoe, 2014.
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Asli Celikyilmaz, Malcolm Slaney, Larry Heck
Int. Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Istanbul, Turkey , 2014.
Asli Celikyilmaz, Zhaleh Feizollahi, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Ruhi Sarikaya
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) , 2014.
Ruhi Sarikaya, Asli Celikyilmaz, Anoop Deoras, Minwoo Jeong
International Speech Communication Association (ICSA) , 2014.
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Asli Celikyilmaz, Larry Heck, Gokhan Tur, Geoff Zweig
The 17th Annual Meeting of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), 2014.
Yang-feng Ji, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Asli Celikyilmaz, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck
IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2014.
Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Minwoo Jeong preprint 2014.
2013
Aditya Bhargava, Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Ruhi Sarikaya
IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , 2013.
Gokhan Tur, Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2013.
Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Ruhi Sarikaya
51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2013.
Asli Celikyilmaz, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2013.
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Asli Celikyilmaz, Larry Heck, Gokhan Tur
Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2013.
2012
Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies, 2012.
A Discriminative Classification-Based Approach to Information State Updates for a Multi-Domain Dialog System
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Ashley Fidler, Asli Celikyilmaz Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2012.
Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2012.
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Asli Celikyilmaz
North Ameircan Association for Computational Linguistics NAACL-2012: Workshop on Future Directions and Needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data, 2012.
Asli Celikyilmaz
IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT) Newsletter, 2012.
2011
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Asli Celikyilmaz, Ashley Fidler, Dustin Harris, Rukmini Iyer, Sarangarajan Parthasarthy
IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 2011.
Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 2011.
Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Asli Celikyilmaz
Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2011.
Dustin Hillard, Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2011.
Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2011.
Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
ICML Workshop on Combining Learning Strategies to Reduce Label Cost, 2011.
Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2011.
Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011.
2010
Asli Celikyilmaz and Dilek Hakkani-Tür
NAACL HLT Workshop on Semantic Search, 2010.
Asli Celikyilmaz
NIPS Workshop on Applications of Topic Models : Text and Beyond, 2010.
Asli Celikyilmaz and Dilek Hakkani-Tür
The Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Inerspeech), 2010.
Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, and Junlan Feng
IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies (SLT), Berkely, CA, 2010.
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
Fuzzy Systems by INTECH, 2010.
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
Information Sciences, 2010.
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR), 2010.
2009
Asli Celikyilmaz and Marcus Thint and Zhiheng Huang
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2009.
Asli Celikyilmaz
Third IEEE Int. Conf. on Semantic Computing (ICSC), 2009.
*Best Paper Award
Zhiheng Huang and Marcus Thint and Asli Celikyilmaz
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2009.
Zhiheng Huang and Guangping Zeng, W. Xu and Asli Celikyilmaz
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2009.
Asli Celikyilmaz
47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP of the AFNLP, 2009.
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
IFSA– World Congress EUSFLAT Conference, 2009.
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
Int. Conf. of North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS), 209.
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
Springer Book , 2009.
Asli Celikyilmaz
International Journal of Semantic Computing, 2009.
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
Expert Systems with Applications, 2009.
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
Journal of Computers, 2009.
2008
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI), 2008.
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
6th Int. Symposium of Intelligent and Manufacturing Systems (IMS), 2008.
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS), 2008.
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
IEEE Int. Conference on Fuzzy Systems-World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), 2008.
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
Int. Conf. of North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS), 2008.
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
Int. Conf. on Inform. Process. and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU), 2008.
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics- Part B 38:4, 2008.
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 16:3, 2008.
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
Pattern Recognition Letters, 2008.
2007
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT), 2007.
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT), 2007.
Asli Celikyilmaz and Burhan Turksen
International Conf. of North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS), 2007.
*Best Student Paper Award
Asli Celikyilmaz and Burhan Turksen
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, Cybernetics (IEEE-SMC), 2007.
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
International Conference on Fuzzy Theory & Technology, 2007.
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
World Congress EUSFLAT Conference (IFSA), 2007.
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
Information Sciences, 2007.
2006
Asli Celikyilmaz and I. Burhan Turksen
International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, 2006.
Interns
Summer 2020 | Saadia Gabriel | Meta-Evaluation of Text Generation |
Summer 2020 | Tom McCoy | Novelty in Langauge Modeling |
Summer 2020 | Yichen Jiang | Approximately-Symbolic Rule-Based Processing with Transformers |
Summer 2020 | Shiyue Zhang | Thread Summarization with Memory State Update Machines |
Summer-Fall 2019 | Hannah Rashkin | Long Text (Story, Article) Generation |
Summer 2019 | Ramakanth Pasunuru | Query Focused Multi-Doc. Summarization |
Summer 2019 | Angela Lin | Multi-modal Alignment |
Summer 2019 | Prasoon Goyal | Generation of multimodal recipes |
Summer 2019 | Roshan Rao | Pre-training w/ multi-modal data |
Summer 2019 | Keping Bi | IE Losses for Extractive Summarization |
Summer 2018 | Xin (Eric) Wang | Visual and Language Navigation |
Summer 2018 | Elizabeth Clark | Evaluation Metrics for Text Generation |
Summer 2018 | Dinghan Shen | Latent Variable models |
Summer 2018 | Amr Sharaf | Multi-Teacher Imitation Learning |
Summer 2017 | Zhe Gan | Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning |
Summer 2017-2018 | Antoine Bosselut | Reward-Based Long form Text Generation |
Summer 2017 | Baolin Peng | Dialog Policy Learning for Composite Tasks |
Summer 2016 | Joo_Kyung Kim | Semantically Enriched Word Embeddings |
Summer 2013 | Yangfeng Ji | Latent Variable Models |
Summer 2013 | Young-Bum Kim | Conversational Dialog |
Summer 2012 | Aditya Bhargava | Conversational Dialog |
Summer 2011 | Svitlana Volkova | Sentiment Analysis |
Bio:
Asli Celikyilmaz is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research (MSR) in Redmond, Washington. She is also an Affiliate Associate Member at the University of Washington. She has received Ph.D. Degree in Information Science from University of Toronto, Canada, and later continued her Postdoc study at Computer Science Department of the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests are mainly in deep learning and natural language, specifically on language generation with long-term coherence, language understanding, language grounding with vision, and building intelligent agents for human-computer interaction She is serving on the editorial boards of Transactions of the ACL (TACL) as area editor and Open Journal of Signal Processing (OJSP) as Associate Editor. She has received several “best of” awards including NAFIPS 2007, Semantic Computing 2009, and CVPR 2019. |
Work Experience:
2010-Present | Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Resarch, Redmond, WA |
2018-Present | Affiliate Associate Member at the Paul G. Allen School University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
2008-2010 | Post-Doctorate Research, Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA |
2005-2008 | Doctor of Philosopy, Engineering, University of Toronto |
2004-2006 | Research Software Engineer, Information Intelligence Co. (IIC), University of Toronto |
2003-2005 | Master of applied Science, Engineering, University of Toronto |
Teaching:
2017 | Lecture on Generative Adversarial Networks at the AI School at MSR AI |
2017 | Lecture on Deep Learning for Interactive Systems at the AI School at MSR AI |
2007 | Lecture on Knowledge Modeling and Management, Univ. of Toronto |
2006 | Lecture on Data Modeling, University of Toronto |
2005 | Lecture on Decision Analysis, University of Toronto |
Honors and Awards:
Best Paper Award, IEEE Int. Conference on Semantic Computing, Berkeley, 2009
Postdoctoral Fellowship from British Telecom University of California, Berkeley, 2008-2010
NSERC (Natural Sci. and Eng. Research Council of Canada), Postdoc Fellowship (PDF), 2008-2010
NSERC (Natural Sci. and Eng. Research Council, Graduate Scholarships), PGSD2, 2007-2009
OGS-Ontario Graduate Scholarships in Science and Technology, Ph.D., 2007-2008
Ph.D. Fellowship, University of Toronto, 2005-2008
Student Travel Grant from IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, 2007
Best Paper Award, North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, 2007
Ontario, Canada Graduate Scholarship in Science and Tech. (OGS-ST), 2006-2007
Research Assistantship Support, University of Toronto, 2005-2006
Master of Science Fellowship, University of Toronto, 2004-2005
Research Assistantship Support, University of Toronto, 2004-2005