Cornelia Caragea
Unit: University of Illinois Chicago
Title: Professor
Research Expertise
Cornelia Caragea is the Robert V. Kenyon Professor of Computer Science and the Director of the Information Retrieval Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Caragea currently serves as Program Director at the National Science Foundation. Her research interests are in natural language processing, artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning, and information retrieval. Caragea’s work has been recognized with several National Science Foundation (NSF) research awards, including the prestigious NSF CAREER award. She has published many research papers in top venues such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, ICML, AAAI, and IJCAI and was a program committee member for many such conferences. She reviewed for many journals including Nature, ACM TIST, JAIR, and TACL, served on many NSF review panels, and organized several workshops on scholarly big data. In 2020-21, she received the College of Engineering (COE) Research Award, which is awarded to faculty in the College of Engineering at UIC for excellent research contributions. Caragea was included on an Elsevier list of the top 2% of scientists in their fields for her single-year impact in 2020.
