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About Thamar Solorio

Prof. Solorio is a Professor in the Natural Language Processing Department at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).

Biography

Prof. Solorio was the founder and director of the RiTUAL Lab at the University of Houston (UH) in addition to being a professor of computer science there before joining MBZUAI. She graduated with honors in computer science from Puebla, Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica. In 2014, Prof. Solorio was given an extremely important honor for young scientists from the National Science Foundation: the NSF CAREER grant, in recognition of her work on authorship attribution. The 2014 Emerging Leader ABIE Award in Honor of Denice Denton was also given to her. She was PC co-chair for NAACL 2019 and is presently serving a second term as an elected board member of the Association of Computational Linguistics' North American Chapter.

In addition, Prof. Solorio serves as a member of the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) advisory board and co-editor-in-chief of the ARR system. In 2022, she received a US patent for her work on book recommendation systems. She worked as an assistant professor at the University of Alabama in Birmingham before joining UH.

Positions

Present Professor, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence Department of Natural Language Processing
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Professional Service and Affiliations

2022 - Present Editor in Chief, ACL Rolling Review (ARR) initiative
Present Advisory board member, ARR
Elected board member, North American Chapter of Association for Computational Linguistics
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Honors and Awards

  • UHCS Academic Excellence Award
  • Denice Denton Emerging Leader ABIE Award, Recognition by the Anita Borg Institute, Fall 2014
  • Research Visit for Distinguished Researchers, UPV, Spain, Fall 2011
  • Anthony Barnard Award, CIS, UAB Fall 2011
  • CRA-W Mid Career Mentoring Workshop, Travel Grant, June 2015