Biography
Oana is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department at Santa Clara University. She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Michigan (Go Blue!).
She is leading the AIM Research Lab, where students explore AI at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV), building innovative multimodal models, tasks, and datasets. They aim to develop equitable AI models across demographics such as income, language, culture, race, gender, and age.
She is passionate about research applications for social impact, and the use of AI to attract and retain minorities in CS. Her work resulted in several publications in top conferences such as ACL, NeurIPS and EMNLP. She is a co-organizer of the NLP for Positive Impact (NLP4PI) workshop at ACL and EMNLP and the SemEval Task on Emotion Recognition in Low-Resource Languages.
Oana is also involved in several outreach programs, including co-organizing the ACL Mentorship global panel sessions and many other events and workshops centered on improving diversity in CS.
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Michigan, 2022
Courses Taught
CSEN 266: Artificial Intelligence
CSEN 12: Data Structures and Algorithms
