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Kenny Zhu

Unit: Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington

Title: Professor

Research Expertise

Kenny's main research areas are natural language processing and knowledge engineering, and his current interests are Animal Language Processing, NLP for mental health, and light-weight NLP. He has published extensively in NLP and AI venues such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, SIGMOD, AAAI, and IJCAI, and has served as the SPC or PC of these venues, too. His research has been supported by NSF, NSF China, MOE China, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Morgan Stanley and AstraZeneca. Kenny is the winner of the 2013 Google Faculty Research Award and 2014 DASFAA Best Paper Award.

Areas of Expertise/Keywords

Natural language processing, NLP, knowledge engineering, animal language, mental health, multi-modal NLP

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant HRD-1834620 and No. 1551221. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.