Invited Talks

2025

Keynote speech at EMNLP, Nov. 2025
Guest speaker at Laude's inaugural Ship Your Research Impact Summit, June 2025
Guest speaker at Apple Workshop on Natural Language and Interactive Systems, April 2025
Invited speaker at Oracle, March 2025
Lecture at the MOOC class on Large Language Model Agents, Feb. 2025
Keynote speaker at AI Agent Reasoning and Decision-Making Workshop 2025

Keynote speech at efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP) workshop at NeurIPS, Dec. 2024
Keynote speech at self-supervised Learning Workshop at NeurIPS, Dec. 2024
Distinguished lecture at Columbia University, Oct. 2024
Grace Hopper distinguished Lecture at University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 2024
Keynote Speech at COLM Conference, Oct. 2024
Featured Keynote speech at PyTorch Conference, Sept. 2024
Panelist at Compound AI Systems Workshop at DataBricks Summit, June 2024
Panelist at Visionary AI Research at SnowFlake Summit, June 2024
Keynote speech at AI Expo for National Competitiveness, DC, May 2024
Keynote speech at Opportunities at the AI Research Frontier event at the White House, DC, May 2024
Keynote, Data for Foundation Models at ICLR Conference, May 2024
Keynote and Panelist at Mathematical and Empirical Understanding of Foundation Models, ICLR Conference, May 2024
Featured Keynote speech, Open-Source Summit by Linux Foundation, April 2024
Keynote speech, Open-Source Generative AI workshop (OSGAI), March 2024
Keynote speech, Northwest Database Society Annual Meeting, Jan 2024

Panelist at UW AI Symposium, Dec. 2023
Keynote speaker at CS Affiliates at UW CSE, Nov 2023
Colloquium speaker, CIIR talk series, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Nov 2023
Keynote speech, Workshop of DialDoc at ACL, Jul 2023
Keynote speech, Workshop of Representation Learning for NLP (Rep4NLP) at ACL, Jul 2023
Colloquium speaker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2023

Invited speaker, Open Data Science Conference, Nov 2022
Colloquium speaker, University of Pittsburgh, Nov. 2022
Colloquium speaker, University of Pennsylvania, Nov. 2022
Colloquium speaker, Stanford University, Oct. 2022
Keynote speech, Workshop of NeuroAI at UW, Sept. 2022
Keynote speech, Workshop of structured and unstructured knowledge integration, NAACL, Jul 2022
Keynote speech, Workshop of Robustness in Sequential Data in CVPR, Jul 2022
Summer School, Jul 2022
Keynote speech, Workshop of Learning with Natural Language Supervision at ACL, May 2022
Keynote speech, Workshop on semi-parametric methods in NLP at ACL, May 2022
Invited speaker, PNNL, March, 2022
Colloquium speaker, Johns Hopkins University, Feb 2022

Keynote speech, Workshop of Math AI for Education (MathAI4Ed) at NeurIPS, Dec. 2021
Keynote speech and Panel speaker, Workshop of Machine Reading and Question Answering at EMNLP, Nov. 2021
Colloquium speaker, University of Texas at Austin, Nov. 2021
NLP Colloquium speaker, Carnegie Mellon University, Oct. 2021
Colloquium speaker, George Town University, Oct. 2021
Keynote speech, Workshop of Self-Supervised Learning and reasoning workshop at ICML, Jul 2021, "Robust Knowledge-Rich Neural Text Comprehension and Reasoning"
Keynote speech, Workshop of Scholarly Document Processing Workshop at NAACL, June 2021, "Knowledge Extraction from Unstructured Scientific Text"
Intel's Rising Star Tech Talk, April 2021, "Knowledge-Rich Neural Text Comprehension and Reasoning"
Panel speaker, IE/IR TAC KBP, March 2021
Panel speaker, Mega AI Panel (PNNL and Universities), March 2021
Keynote speech, Workshop of Knowledge Discovery from Financial Documents at AAAI, Feb 2021, "Knowledge Extraction from Unstructured Scientific Text"

NLP seminar, University of Texas Austin, Dec 2020, "Knowledge-Rich Neural Text Comprehension and Reasoning"
NLP seminar, University of Columbia, Nov 2020, "Knowledge-Rich Neural Text Comprehension and Reasoning"
Keynote speech, Annual West Coast NLP Summit, Oct 2020, "Efficient transformers for natural language processing"
CS Colloquium, George Town University, Oct 2020, "Knowledge-Rich Neural Text Comprehension and Reasoning"
Keynote speaker, Women+Data Science seminar at University of Michigan, Sept 2020, "Knowledge Extraction from Unstructured Scientific Text"
Guest speaker, AI2, Sept 2020, "Knowledge-Rich Neural Text Comprehension and Reasoning"

Panel speaker, UW MSR summer workshop, Jul 2019
Panel speaker, DB affiliates at University of Washington, July 2019
Keynote speech, Workshop of Adaptive and Multitask Learning: Algorithms & Systems at ICML, June 2019, "Toward Robust AI Systems for Understanding and Reasoning Over Multimodal Data"
Keynote speech, Workshop of Structured Prediction for NLP at NAACL, Jun 2019, "Toward Robust AI Systems for Understanding and Reasoning over Multimodal Data"
NLP seminar, New York University Data Science center, May 2019, "Toward Robust AI Systems for Understanding and Reasoning over Multimodal Data"
Panel speaker, UW Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Panel, Feb 2019

Guest speaker, Google, Jul 2018, "Learning to reason in multiple modalities"
Keynote speech, Workshop of UW DB Affiliates, Jul 2018, "Learning to reason in multiple modalities"
UW CSE colloquium, Jan 2018, "Learning to reason in multiple modalities"

Guest speaker, Big Data Workshop, Aug 2016, "Learning to read, ground, and reason in multimodal text"
UW AI seminars, April 2016, "Reasoning-based Question Answering"

Jelinek summer workshop (JSALT), June 2015, "Grounded language learning with weak supervision"

Guest speaker, Allen Institute of AI, Feb 2014, "Diagram Understanding in Geometry Questions"

UW MSR Summer Institute Invited Talk, July 2013, "Language Grounding with Weak Supervision"
UW MSR NLP colloquium, Feb 2013, "Language Grounding with Weak Supervision"