Talks

Invited Talks, Keynote Speeches, Panels, and Tutorials

Since 2020

2025

• Keynote talk “How Large Language Models Are Reshaping Enterprise Decision-Making” at Decision Sciences Institute Conference, November 2025 Video recording
• Invited Talk “Building and Querying Enterprise Knowledge Bases: From Declarative to Agentic” at NYU Abu Dhabi, October 2025
• Invited Talk “From Lab to Launch: Building a Career Beyond Academia” at MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence) Global Tech Talk series, October 2025 Slides Link
• Keynote talk “Declarative to Generative: Building and Querying Enterprise Knowledge Bases” at Knowledgeable Foundation Models Workshop (co-located with ACL), August 2025
• Panel: “Knowledgeable Foundation Models at Knowledgeable Foundation Models Workshop (co-located with ACL), August 2025
  • Moderator:Zoey Sha Li; Panelist: Ed Hovy, Chengxiang Zhai,Yunyao Li
• Panel: “Rethinking NLP Evaluation: Automatic metrics, LLM as a judge, human evaluation, and beyond” at IT:U (Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria) Summer School on NLP, July 2025
  • Moderator: Anne Lauscher; Panelist: Iryna Gurevych, Yunyao Li, Steffen Eger, Goran Glavaš
• Invited talk: “Declarative to Generative: Building and Querying Enterprise Knowledge Bases” at IT:U (Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria) Summer School on NLP, July 2025
• Keynote talk: “Building & Querying Enterprise Knowledge Bases: From Declarative Languages to GenAI” at KnowledgeNLP Workshop (co-located with NAACL), May 2025
• Invited talk: “Building & Querying Enterprise Knowledge Bases: From Declarative Languages to GenAI” at Univ. of Michigan DB Seminars, April 2025
• Invited talk: “Building & Querying Enterprise Knowledge Bases: From Declarative Languages to GenAI” at UCSC NLP Seminars, January 2025 (with Akash Maharaj)

2024

• Invited talk: “Building & Querying Enterprise Knowledge Bases: From Declarative Languages to GenAI” UIC Data Labs Seminars, December 2024
• Panel: “Industrial Collaboration and Startups”, CRA-WP Virtual Career Mentoring Workshop Series, November 2024 link
• Invited talk: “Introduction to NLP”, Invited Lecture at STTAR’s online Advanced Course “Transformative Teaching With AI: Practices and Approaches in Education”, August 2024 (with Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, Vishy Swaminathan, and Dakuo Wang)
• Tutorial: “Meaning Representations for Natural Languages: Design, Models and Applications”: LREC-COLING’2024, May 2024 slides

2023

• Keynote talk: “The Role of Patterns in the Era of Large Language Models - Initial Learnings from Constructing, Growing and Serving Large Knowledge Graphs”, PAN-DL Workshop at EMNLP 2023, December 2023 slides
• Invited talk: “The Role of Patterns in the Era of Large Language Models - Initial Learnings from Constructing, Growing and Serving Large Knowledge Graphs”, Washington University in St. Luis, November 2023
• Invited talk: “The Role of Patterns in the Era of Large Language Models - Initial Learnings from Constructing, Growing and Serving Large Knowledge Graphs”, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor - EECS595, November 2023
• Tutorial: “Meaning Representations for Natural Languages: Design, Models and Applications”, IJCAI’22, August 2023 slides
• Keynote talk: “Building, Growing and Serving Large Knowledge Graphs with Human-in-the-Loop”, HILDA’2023 (Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics), Co-located with SIGMOD 2023, June 2023 slides, June 2023
• Invited talk: “Building, Growing and Serving Large Knowledge Graphs with Human-in-the-Loop”, Tsinghua University slides, June 2023

2022

• Panel (moderator): “Careers in NLP”, EMNLP’22, December 2022
• Tutorial: “Meaning Representations for Natural Languages: Design, Models and Applications”, EMNLP’22, December 2022
• Panel (panelist): “Industry Panel” at Stanford Graph Learning Workshop (recording towards the end), September 2022
• Keynote talk: “Building Large-Scale Knowledge Bases with Human in the Loop”, IEEE International Symposium on Women in Services Computing (WISC 2022), July 2022
• Panel (moderator): “Careers in NLP”, NAACL’22
• Tutorial: “Deep Learning on Graphs for Natural Language Processing”: AAAI’22 (recording, slides); WWW’22 (website with all materials)

2021

• Tutorial: “Explainability for Natural Language Processing”, KDD’2021 (website, recording, slides)
• Tutorial: “Deep Learning on Graphs for Natural Language Processing” NAACL’21, KDD’21, IJCAI’21 (website)
• Keynote talk: “Taming the Wild West of Natural Language Processing”, NLP4MuSA’2021 (recording, slides), November 2021
• Invited talk: “Taming the Wild West of Natural Language Processing”, WIT: Workshop On Deriving Insights From User-Generated Text, Co-located with KDD, August 2021
• Invited talk: “Towards Deep Table Understanding”, Document Intelligence Workshop, Co-located with KDD, August 2021 (slides)
• Invited talk: “Human in the Loop AI for Building Knowledge Bases”, Megagon Lab, June 2021
• Invited talk: “Towards Universal Natural Language Understanding”, Women in Engineering Conference, March 2021

2020

• Keynote talk: “Towards Universal Natural Language Understanding”, Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, Keynote Talk, October 2020
• Invite talk: “Building Domain-Specific Knowledge with Human in the Loop”, UIUC NLP Seminar, September 2020
• Guest lecture” “Building Domain-Specific Knowledge with Human in the Loop”, Naval Postgraduate School, Guest Lecture, July 2020
• Keynote Talk: “Building Domain-Specific Knowledge with Human in the Loop”, Structured and Unstructured KBs Workshop at AKBC,June 2020