Mar 2 2022

GradSWE Women Empowerment Series with Dr. Natalie Parde

March 2, 2022

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Location

1-470 Daley Library

Address

801 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL

Headshot of Dr. Natalie Parde, About event section, and about the speaker section

What is the Women Empowerment Series?

Hosted by GradSWE every semester, this series provides an opportunity to hear directly from extraordinary women from UIC's own engineering departments. Speakers share their stories and attendees are able to ask questions and gain insight into what it is like to be a woman in engineering. All are welcome to attend! Please RSVP ASAP as seating is limited!

About the Speaker

Dr. Natalie Parde is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she also co-directs UIC’s Natural Language Processing Laboratory. Her research interests are in natural language processing, with emphasis in healthcare applications, interactive systems, multimodality, and creative language. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Office Ergonomics Research Committee, the Discovery Partners Institute, and several internal seed funding programs. She serves on the program committees of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and the North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL), among other conferences and workshops. In her spare time, Dr. Parde enjoys engaging in mentorship and outreach for CS students in engineering.

Please RSVP

Contact

Jaqueline Rojas

Date posted

Feb 9, 2022

Date updated

Feb 9, 2022