Alane Suhr
/əˈleɪn ˈsuəɹ/Young Investigator
Mosaic at the Allen Institute for AI
alanes@allenai.org
(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.
FYI: Applying to Berkeley
I will be starting to work with doctoral students at Berkeley in Fall of 2023, so please apply this cycle if you have interest. Please see this page for details on how to apply to graduate programs in Berkeley EECS. The deadline is December 8 2022, at 8:59pm PT. Information about application fee waivers for Berkeley admissions is here.
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I don't have the bandwidth to respond to individual emails I receive about admissions. If you're considering applying to Berkeley, please do!
News and Events
Upcoming talks show past talks and recordings
| Date | Type | Venue | Location | Recording | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | December 15 | Invited Talk | Workshop on Language and Robot Learning (CoRL) | virtual | |
| October 23 | Invited Talk | Workshop on Language for 3D Scenes (ECCV) | virtual | ||
| October 21 | Guest Speaker | UW Computational Linguistics Lab | virtual | ||
| September 9 | Invited Talk | BAIR Trust, Equity, and Grounded Language Workshop | virtual | ||
| August 22 | Dissertation Defense | Cornell CS | New York, NY | link | |
| July 15 | Invited Talk | Workshop on Multimodal Artificial Intelligence (NAACL) | Seattle, WA | ||
| July 14 | Invited Talk | SemEval | Seattle, WA | ||
| May 4 | Job Talk | AI2 | virtual | ||
| May 2 | Job Talk | UT Austin CS | Austin, TX | ||
| April 28 | Job Talk | Hugging Face | New York, NY | ||
| April 17 | Job Talk | Microsoft Research | virtual | ||
| April 11 | Job Talk | CMU LTI | Pittsburgh, PA | ||
| April 7 | Job Talk | University of Waterloo CS | virtual | ||
| April 5 | Job Talk | GATech School of IC | virtual | ||
| April 4 | Job Talk | BU CS | virtual | ||
| March 30 | Job Talk | Northwestern CS | virtual | ||
| March 29 | Job Talk | UChicago Data Science | virtual | ||
| March 23 | Job Talk | UPenn CIS | Philadelphia, PA | ||
| March 22 | Job Talk | Rutgers CS | virtual | ||
| March 17 | Job Talk | Yale CS | virtual | ||
| March 14 | Job Talk | JHU CS | virtual | ||
| March 8 | Job Talk | UC Berkeley CS | virtual | ||
| March 2 | Job Talk | TTIC | Chicago, IL | ||
| February 28 | Job Talk | SFU CS | virtual | ||
| February 24 | Guest Speaker | Stanford NLP Seminar | virtual | ||
| February 23 | Job Talk | UMass Amherst CICS | virtual | ||
| February 9 | Paper Presentation | SCiL (Effenberger et al. 2022) |
virtual | ||
| January 20 | Guest Speaker | NRL Reasoning Lunch | virtual | ||
| 2021 | December 9 | Guest Speaker | Cornell CS Colloquium | Ithaca, NY | |
| November 17 | Guest Speaker | NLP with Friends | virtual | link | |
| November 10 | Tutorial | Crowdsourcing Beyond Annotation: Case Studies in Benchmark Data Collection (EMNLP) | virtual | link | |
| May 21 | Guest Speaker | DeepMind NLP Reading Group | virtual |
Upcoming workshops show previous workshops
| Date | Collocated | Workshop | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | December 2 | NeurIPS | InterNLP: Interactive Learning for NLP | New Orleans, LA (hybrid) |
| 2021 | June 10 | NAACL | ViGIL: Visually Grounded Interaction and Language | virtual |