About
Dr. Pan is an Associate Professor at the Information Systems Department of UMBC. Before joining UMBC, Dr. Pan was a research scientist at IBM Watson Research Center. Her research interests include Natural Language Processing (NLP), Social Media Analytics, Bias and Fairness in AI and Human-AI Interaction. Dr. Pan has served on the program committees of major international conferences (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, IJCAI). She was the program chair of 2015 and conference chair of 2019 ACM IUI. She was the program chair of IEEE ICTAI 2020. Currently, she is an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS) and a member of the steering committee of IUI. Dr. Pan received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University
Research interests
Natural Language Processing (NLP), Social Media Analytics , Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Big Data, Computational Social Science, Computational Psychology, Speech Processing, Dialogue Systems, Fair AI and Machine Learning, Human-AI Interaction, User Modeling and Personalization.
Teaching interests
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Social Media Analytics, Information Extraction (IE), Machine Learning (ML), Data Mining (DM) and Database Systems.
Education
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Ph D, Computer Science
— Columbia University (2002) Prosody Modeling for Concept to Speech Generation
- Other, Computer Science — Columbia University (1998)
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BS, Computer Science
— Tsinghua University (1991) Corpus-based Chinese Parsing