Awards and Nominations
2024:
- EMNLP 2024 Social Impact Paper Award.
- Invited to give the convocation address to the Brock University Graduating Class of 2024
- Oral Presentation at EMNLP 2024. STOP! Benchmarking Large Language Models with Sensitivity Testing on Offensive Progressions -Faculty of Math and Sciences Teaching Award, Brock University, $2,500. [Details]
- Oral Presentation at ACL 2024. Picturing Ambiguity: A Visual Twist on the Winograd Schema Challenge
2021: Oral Presentation at ACL 2021. [Video]
2020: Oral Presentation at Coling 2020
2019: Oral Presentation at EMNLP 2019
2018: Best Paper Award–NAACL SRW 2018. [Details]
2017: The Fonds de recherche du Québec Nature et technologies (FRQNT) - PhD Scholarship, $63,000 [Declined]
2015: McGill University Graduate Excellence Award, $4,000
2013: William Dawson Undergraduate Excellence Award, $2,000
Funding
2023: New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) Exploration Grant, $200,000. [Details]
2022:
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) Discovery Launch Supplement, $12,500. [Details]
- NSERC’s Discovery Grant, $125,000. [Details]
2017: NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship - PhD Program, $63,000
2015 - 2017:
- NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s Program, $17,500 (each year)
- Fonds de Recherche Santé Quebec (FRSQ) Master’s Scholarship, $15,000 (each year)
Ali Emami
Assistant Professor
Ali Emami is an assistant professor of computer science at Brock Uniersity. His research interests include natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. He leads the Natural Language Processing group, which develops natural language understanding and generation systems that are generalizable, interpretable, and fair.