Dr. Yova Kementchedjhieva is an assistant professor in the Natural Language Processing Department at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).

Prior to joining MBZUAI, Dr. Kementchedjhieva was a postdoctoral researcher in the department of computer science at the University of Copenhagen. During her time at the University of Copenhagen, she worked on conditional text generation across a range of tasks, including grammatical error correction, dialog generation, and image captioning. Her earlier work concerned multilingual natural language processing, with a focus on cross-lingual embedding alignment. While at Copenhagen, she also worked as a teaching assistant, gave lectures for beginner and advanced NLP courses, and interned at Google LLC and DataMinr in a researcher capacity.

Dr. Kementchedjhieva’s research concerns language generation in multimodal and cross-lingual contexts. She is interested in knowledge grounding and transfer learning, most recently in the area of vision-and-language processing.