Alane Suhr
/əˈleɪn ˈsuəɹ/Young Investigator
Mosaic at the Allen Institute for AI
(Starting July 2023)
Assistant Professor
Berkeley EECS
publications CV (pdf)
About
I am currently a Young Investigator at AI2 on the Mosaic team (led by Yejin Choi), based in Seattle, WA. In July 2023, I will join UC Berkeley EECS as an Assistant Professor.
In 2022, I received my PhD in Computer Science at Cornell University, based at Cornell Tech in New York, NY, and advised by Yoav Artzi. In 2016, I graduated from Ohio State University with a BS in Computer Science and Engineering and a minor in Linguistics.
My research spans natural language processing, machine learning, and computer vision. I build systems that use language to interact with people, e.g., in collaborative interactions (like CerealBar). I design models and datasets that address and represent problems in language grounding (e.g., NLVR). I also develop learning algorithms for systems that learn language through interaction.
My email address is suhr@berkeley.edu. Before cold-emailing me, please check if your question is frequently asked. I don't have the bandwidth to reply to every email I receive, so if the answer to your question is on this page, I will not be able to reply individually.
Workshop on Theory of Mind at ICML 2023
I'm co-organizing the ToM workshop at ICML 2023. It will take place July 28, 2023 at ICML. Please consider submitting! Submission deadline is May 26, and details on submissions are available at the workshop website.
News and Events
| 2023 | ||
| June 19 | Invited talk at CVPR Workshop on Open-Domain Reasoning Under Multi-Modal Settings (O-DRUM) | Vancouver, BC |
| July 26 | Invited talk at CogSci workshop: How does the mind discover useful abstractions? | virtual |
| July 28 | Co-organizing ICML workshop: TOM: Theory of Mind in Communicating Agents | Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (hybrid) |
| October 2 or 3 | Invited talk at ICCV workshop on Closing the Loop between Vision and Language (CLVL) | |
| 2023 | ||
| April 20 | Guest lecture at CMU 11-777 | virtual |
| April 13 | Guest lecture at UT Austin CS 378 | virtual |
| March 3 | Guest lecture at UW CS 447 | virtual |
| 2022 | ||
| December 15 | Invited talk at CoRL Workshop on Language and Robot Learning | virtual |
| December 2 | Co-organizing NeurIPS Workshop: InterNLP: Interactive Learning for NLP | New Orleans, LA (hybrid) |
| October 23 | Invited talk at ECCV Workshop on Language for 3D Scenes | virtual |
| October 21 | Guest speaker at UW Computational Linguistics Lab | virtual |
| September 9 | Invited talk at BAIR Trust, Equity, and Grounded Language Workshop | virtual |
| August 22 | Dissertation defense (recording) | New York, NY |
| July 15 | Invited talk at NAACL Workshop on Multimodal Artificial Intelligence | Seattle, WA |
| July 14 | Invited talk at SemEval | Seattle, WA |
| May 4 | Job talk at AI2 | virtual |
| May 2 | Job talk at UT Austin CS | Austin, TX |
| April 28 | Job talk at HuggingFace | New York, NY |
| April 17 | Job talk at Microsoft Research | virtual |
| April 11 | Job talk at CMU LTI | Pittsburgh, PA |
| April 7 | Job talk at University of Waterloo CS | virtual |
| April 5 | Job talk at GATech School of IC | virtual |
| April 4 | Job talk at Boston University CS | virtual |
| March 30 | Job talk at Northwestern CS | virtual |
| March 29 | Job talk at UChicago Data Science | virtual |
| March 23 | Job talk at UPenn CIS | Philadelphia, PA |
| March 22 | Job talk at Rutgers CS | virtual |
| March 17 | Job talk at Yale CS | virtual |
| March 14 | Job talk at JHU CS | virtual |
| March 8 | Job talk at UC Berkeley CS | virtual |
| March 2 | Job talk at TTIC | Chicago, IL |
| February 28 | Job talk at SFU CS | virtual |
| February 24 | Guest speaker at Stanford NLP seminar | virtual |
| February 23 | Job talk at UMass Amherst CICS | virtual |
| February 9 | Presented Effenberger et al. 2022 at SCiL | virtual |
| January 20 | Guest speaker at NRL Reasoning Lunch | virtual |
| 2021 | ||
| December 9 | Guest speaker at Cornell CS Colloquium | Ithaca, NY |
| November 17 | Guest speaker at NLP with Friends (recording) | virtual |
| November 20 | Tutorial at EMNLP, Crowdsourcing Beyond Annotation: Case Studies in Benchmark Data Collection (recordings) | virtual |
| June 10 | Co-organizing NAACL Workshop: VIGIL: Visually Grounded Interaction and Language | virtual |
| May 21 | Guest speaker at DeepMind NLP reading group | virtual |