Yulia Tsvetkov

Expertise: Natural language processing, ethics and AI, computational social science, multilingual natural language processing, large language models

Yulia Tsvetkov is an associate professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. Her research group works on fundamental advancements to large language models, multilingual natural language processing (NLP), and AI ethics. This research is motivated by a unified goal: to extend the capabilities of human language technology beyond individual populations and across language boundaries, thereby making NLP tools available to all users. Prior to joining UW, Yulia was an assistant professor at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and a postdoc at Stanford; she received her PhD from CMU. Yulia is a recipient of NSF CAREER, Sloan Fellowship, Okawa Research award, and several paper awards and runner-ups at NLP, ML, and CSS conferences.