Dr. Ekaterina Kochmar is an Assistant Professor in the Natural Language Processing Department at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).

Prior to joining MBZUAI, Dr. Kochmar worked as a Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Bath (2021–2023) where she was part of the AI research group. Prior to that, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the ALTA (Automated Language Teaching and Assessment) Institute at University of Cambridge focusing on the development of educational applications for second language learners.

She conducts research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and intelligent tutoring systems. Her research contributed to the building of Read & Improve, a readability tool for non-native readers of English, and to the building of Korbi, a dialogue-based intelligent tutoring system capable of providing learners with high-quality, interactive and personalized education in STEM subjects.

Dr. Kochmar is a co-founder and the chief scientific officer of Korbit AI, focusing on building an AI-powered dialogue-based tutoring system capable of providing learners with high-quality, interactive, and personalized education in STEM subjects.

She is the President of the ACL Special Interest Group on Educational Applications (SIGEDU), and of the International Alliance to Advance Learning in the Digital Era (IAALDE). She is an area chair in NLP Applications for ACL 2023 and an action editor for the ACL Rolling Review; prior to that she served as an area chair for EMNLP 2022 and ACL 2023, and was part of the programme committees of the top-ranked international conferences in the field, including ACL,NAACL,EMNLP, AAAI, COLING, BEA, LREC, *SEM, as well as multiple ACL workshops.