Mona Diab

Role
Higher Education Leadership Fellowship Mentor
Title
Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Bio/Description

Mona Diab is recently selected as ACL Fellow, and is Full Professor and the Director of the Language Technologies Institute within the school of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), in Pittsburgh, USA. She directs the R3LIT (read relit) Lab. Prior to joining CMU, she was a Lead Responsible AI Research Scientist with Meta, and full Professor of Computer Science at the George Washington University, where she directed the CARE4Lang NLP Lab. Before joining Meta, she led the  Lex Conversational AI project within Amazon AWS AI. Her current focus is on Responsible AI and how to operationalize it for NLP technologies. Her interests span building robust technologies for low resource scenarios with a special interest in Arabic technologies, (mis) information propagation, computational socio-pragmatics, computational psycholinguistics, NLG evaluation metrics, Language modeling and resource creation. Mona has served the community in several capacities: Elected President of SIGLEX and SIGSemitic, and the elected President of ACL SIGDAT, the board supporting EMNLP conferences. She helped establish two research trends in NLP, namely computational approaches to Code Switching and Semantic Textual Similarity. She is also a founding member of the *SEM conference, one of the top tier conferences in NLP. Mona has published more than 250 peer reviewed articles.