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)