Two papers accepted at COLIN-2022, congratulations to Chen and Joslin! see our publication page.

I'll serve as AAAI-2023 senior program committee.

I will collaborate with the awarded NSF project on "Evaluating Effects of Automatic Feedback Aligned to a Learning Progression to Promote Knowledge-In-Use" as Key personnel.

We received Trifecta Initiative Facilitating Funds Award for working on this project "SCH: AI Supported Health Misinformation Management" in collaboration with the Department of Media and Information!

I'll serve as area chair of CoLING 2022, Multimodal and Grounded Language Acquisition.

I will give a tutorial at COLING-2022, on Spatial Language Understanding: Representation, Reasoning, and Grounding, in collaboration with James Pustejovsky and Marie-Francine Moens.

I'll serve as area chair of ECML-PKDD 2022.

I will serve as Senior Area Chair of NAACL 2022 for Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond track.

I will work as Action editor for ACL rolling review 2022.

I will work as Action editor for ACL rolling review Nov/Dec 2021.

I will work as NSF review panelist, 2022.

I will serve as NAACL-2022 co-chair for academic inclusion.

I will review for IJACI-2022 as program committee member.

I will serve as AAAI-2022 senior program committee member.

I will co-organize a workshop on Combining Learning and Reasoning: Programming Languages, Formalisms, and Representations (CLeaR), In conjunction (AAAI-2022), on Feb 28th.

Congratulations to Quan, Hossein, Yue, Andrzej and HLR research team for a research paper accepted at IJCAI-2020: Inference-Masked Loss for Deep Structured Output Learning.

Congratulations to Chen Zheng, Quan Guo and HLR research team for a paper accepted at ACL-2020: Cross-Modality Relevance for Reasoning on Language and Vision.

I attended and gave a talk at Dagstuhl Seminar on Software Engineering for AI-ML-based Systems Feb 23-28 (2020).

I will serve as an area chair of ACL-2020 on Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond track.

Our proposal for a tutorial on Representation, Learning and Reasoning on Spatial Language for Downstream NLP Tasks is accepted to be held with EMNLP at Punta Cana, Dominican Republic on November 8-12, 2020.

Our proposal for the second workshop on Spatial Language Understanding is accepted to be held with EMNLP at Punta Cana, Dominican Republic on November 8-12, 2020.

Congratulations to Quan Guo, Andrzej Uszok and Yue Zhang for winning the Most Impactful to AI award from Michigan AI symposium, 2019, for our poster on From Ontologies to Learning-based Programs.

I will serve on NSF panel, 2019.

Congratulations to my undergrad students, Grant Collins, Joseph Kim and Shees Ahmed! they won the best poster award for their capstone project in Tulane Engineering Capstone Design Expo!

Feb 2019: We organize the 4th International workshop on Declarative Learning based Programming (DeLBP-2019) in conjunction with IJCAI-2019, August 10/12, China.

Feb 2019: Benyamin Ahmadnia, post-doctoral researcher, joined my research group.

Feb 2019: Quan Guo, post-doctoral researcher, joined my research group.

Feb 2019: I obtained NSF CAREER award to start a project on "Combining learning and reasoning for spatial language understanding".

Jan 2019: We combined SpLU-2019 with RoboNLP workshop and will collaborate with RoboNLP folks.

Dec 2018: Our second workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU-2019) is accepted to be held in conjunction with NAACL-2019, June 6-7, Minnesota, USA.

August 2018: Chen Zheng, graduate student, joined my research group.

August 2018: I obtained an ONR grant to Advance Artificial Intelligence and work on Declarative Learning Based Programming for Integration of Domain Knowledge in Statistical Learning (DominKnowS).

We organize the first workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU-2018) in conjunction with NAACL-2018, June 1-6, New Orleans, USA.

We organize the 3rd International workshop on Declarative Learning based Programming (DeLBP-2018) in conjunction with AAAI-2018, Feb 3rd, New Orleans, USA.

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