Smaranda Muresan

Dr. Muresan is a Research Scientist at the Data Science Institute at Columbia University. Before joining CU, she was a faculty in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University, where she co-founded the Laboratory for the Study of Applied Language Technologies and Society. While at Rutgers, she received a Distinguished Achievements in Research Award. Her research expertise is in natural language processing with a focus on computational models for understanding language in context, such as social context, visual context or multilingual context, with applications to computational social science, education and recently public health. Her research has been funded by NSF, NIH, DARPA and IARPA. She has received two best papers awards at SIGDIAL and ACL.