MODELS 2025 Keynotes

Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan, USA

Title TBD

Abstract will be announced soon.

Biography

Rada Mihalcea is the Janice M. Jenkins Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has made significant contributions to natural language processing, multimodal processing, and computational social science. With Paul Tarau, she is the co-inventor of the TextRank Algorithm, a classic algorithm widely used for text summarization. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Southern Methodist University (2001) and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Oxford University (2010). In 2017, she was named Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at University of Michigan. She served as vice president (2018) and president (2021) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). She leads the Language and Information Technologies (LIT) Lab at the University of Michigan.