It's official now! I'm feeling very honoured to have been appointed full professor at @DIKU_Institut @koebenhavns_uni, making me the youngest female full professor in Denmark ever.
Isabelle Augenstein
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Isabelle Augenstein
@IAugenstein
Full Professor @CopeNLU @uni_copenhagen. Formerly @ucl_nlp, @SheffieldNLP. Explainable AI, Natural Language Processing, ML.
- Good research comes from a place of calm, and from dedicated, prolongued focus. If you're constantly panicking and trying to jump on every small research trend, you have already lost. The best researchers I've worked with seemed to have all the time in the world to discuss ideas.
- I'm happy to now officially share that I'll be a (tenured) associate professor in #NLProc @DIKU_Institut from next month onwards 🎉🥳 Thanks to my wonderful collaborators, students & mentors over the years who've helped me get this far -- here's to more good work in the future 😃
- I’m pleased to announce my new role as head of the newly established #NLProc section at @DIKU_Institut @uni_copenhagen di.ku.dk/english/news/2… di.ku.dk/english/resear… Want to work with us? We have several open PhD positions: di.ku.dk/english/about/…
- Have you ever wondered how you could increase your happiness and well-being as an academic? I certainly have. I've written a blog post with some suggestions, backed up by psychology research. medium.com/@isabelle.auge… #wellbeing #mentalhealth #academiclife Comments welcome 🙂
- Having a #Wikipedia bio is often seen as a measure for notability despite well-known biases in Wikipedia bios. In my new blog post, I examine the relationship between notability, research impact, gender & institutional affiliations of #NLProc researchers isabelle-augenstein.medium.com/who-is-wikiped…
- I successfully defended my higher doctoral thesis on Monday, earning the title of Doctor Scientiarum 🎉🎓 You can read the thesis "Towards Explainable Fact Checking" here: isabelleaugenstein.github.io/papers/Isabell… Many thanks to the committee members @lspecia & Iryna Gyrevych @christian_igel!Big congratulations to Associate Professor @IAugenstein who defended her doctoral thesis this week on explainable fact checking👏 We don't quite understand how you found the time to do this on top of everything else😲 What an achievement! @CopeNLU #NLP #FactCheck #misinformation
- 📢I'm currently looking for paid PhD interns in the areas of fact checking and explainability 📢 Distance or on-site internships both possible. Minimum length 2 months, 3 months preferred. Email me for further details if interested 🙂📧 @CopeNLU #NLProc #ML #misinformation #XAI
- 📣 Looking for a PhD position? 10 PhD fellowships are available via the Danish Data Science Academy ddsa.dk/open-calls/ope… Caveat: applicants need to have graduated from a 2-year MSc programme by the time of application Deadline: 20 March 2022 Get in touch if you're interested!
- 📜I've just completed my #acl2021nlp paper reading marathon (main conference, findings, and workshop proceedings) -- here are my personal (highly subjective) highlights: #NLProc
- Big news — I finally set up my own #NLProc research group at @uni_copenhagen! It has a Twitter account (@CopeNLU) and a website: copenlu.github.io If you’re curious about joining us, you can read more about why and how to in this blog post: copenlu.github.io/post/why-ucph/Hello, world! We're a Natural Language Understanding research group lead by @IAugenstein, at @DIKU_Institut @uni_copenhagen We're interested in #ML research on learning with limited data, and #NLProc tasks such as fact checking, knowledge base population & question answering.
- I am looking for 2 PhD students to join @CopeNLU to work on explainability & stance detection, funded by a @DFF_raad Sapere Aude fellowship. Deadline: 31 Jan 2021 Start date: 1 Sept 2021 Project info: copenlu.com/talk/2020_10_p… Job ad: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=… #NLProc #ML #XAI
- I'm absolutely thrilled to have been awarded a prestigious ERC Starting Grant on 'Explainable and Robust Automatic Fact Checking (ExplainYourself)'! Read more about the project & how to join the team here: copenlu.com/talk/2022_11_e… @ERC_Research #ERCStG #factchecking #XAI @CopeNLU📢 The ERC's 2022 Starting Grant competition results are now revealed. Over €636 million to fund the best ideas of younger scientists. Find out who, where and why 👉 bit.ly/3JRyDDg 🇪🇺#EUfunded @HorizonEU #FrontierResearch #ERCStG
