About me
I am working as an assistant professor with the Social AI Group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, focusing on multimodal agents for conversational AI. Formerly, I worked with DIS Group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and Amazon, focusing on core NLP/IR problems in both industry and academia. I have pursued my Ph.D. with the IRLab at University of Amsterdam, supervised by Prof. dr. Maarten de Rijke and Prof. dr. Pengjie Ren. My interest includes natural language processing (dialogue systems, word embedding, parsing, summarization) and information retrieval (query understanding, recommender system, matcher embedding).
Work Experience
- Aug. 01, 2024, I joined Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as an asssistant professor with Social AI Group.
- Apr. 03, 2023, I joined CWI as a researcher.
- Dec. 01, 2021, I joined Amazon as an applied scientist.
News
Jun. 19, 2026 — (Upcoming) Workshop at Hack4Her 2026 and invited talk ‘𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙮 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝘼𝙄 𝘼𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙃𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙡-𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜’.
Jun. 16, 2026 — (Upcoming) Invited Keynote Speech ‘𝙈𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙡 𝘼𝙄 𝘼𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨: 𝙈𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙡 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙐𝙨𝙚𝙧 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚’ at the ICMR 2026 conference.
Jun. 10, 2026 — (Upcoming) Summer school on the ‘𝙐𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝘼𝙄 𝙞𝙣 𝘼𝙘𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙖’
May. 12, 2026 — Invited talk ‘𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙮 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝘼𝙄 𝘼𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙈𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝙎𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩’ at the Kurt Lewin Instituut (KLI) conference.
Apr. 08 2026 — Two papers 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆𝗠𝗜 and 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁𝟮𝗘𝗾 were accepted at ACL 2026.
Feb. 20 2026 — Two papers 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗪𝗶𝘀𝗲 and 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 were accepted at CHI 2026.