Traditionally, computer science faculty at CSU give rapid-fire research presentations at the beginning of the fall semester to present themselves to students and discuss research opportunities. Due to the Covid situation pushing everything online, the seminar format is being flipped this year, with prerecorded videos being offered followed by Q+A...

Today I presented a long paper, “Neurosymbolic AI for Situated Language Understanding” at the Advances in Cognitive Systems conference, held virtually and hosted by the Palo Alto Research Center.

I’m pleased to announce the formation of my lab here at Colorado State, the Situated Grounding and Natural Language Lab. As the primary NLP group in the CSU Computer Science department, we aim to produce cutting-edge AI research in language processing and understanding that’s grounded in linguistic knowledge and multimodality,...