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Biography
Sarvnaz is a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO’s Data61. She has over a decade of experience developing and applying methods in the intersection of Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Machine Learning for specific domains, such as health. She has supervised and mentors multiple PhD students and postdoctoral fellows over years in collaboration with CSIRO colleagues and different universities across Australia.
Sarvnaz is very active in the research community at large, in Australia and internationally. Sarvnaz is currently Director of Publicity at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), which is the main international professional body for NLP. She acted as the President of Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA), in which she is still an executive committee member. She has served as chair, area-chair, and Programme Committee member of a number of major national and prestigious international conferences, including Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA), Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS), the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR), the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), and the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). She serves as reviewer for a number of journals, including ACM Computing Surveys, Artificial Intelligence for Medicine, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, Language Resources and Evaluation, and Information Processing & Management. Through CSIRO and theData61 scholarship programme, Sarvnaz currently co-supervises three PhD students from different Australian universities. Sarvnaz completed a PhD in Natural Language Processing in 2008 (RMIT University).She has a masters in Artificial Intelligence, and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering.
More information at: LinkedIn Profile, Google scholar for publication, or Publons Profile
Other Interests
Since 2012, Sarvnaz volunteers some of her time in the Scientist & Mathematician in School program (STEM Professionals), in the hope to encourage more students to study computer science. That includes visiting schools and teaching basics of computer science such as algorithms of searching and sorting, introduction to programming (e.g., Python), as well as giving public lectures or demos.
Professional Areas
Current Roles
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Project Leader
Medical Decision Support Project within Precision Health Future Science Platform (https://research.csiro.au/lasc/home/projects/medical-decision-support/) -
Principal Research Scientist
CSIRO Low Carb Diet meals project, Responsible for evaluation using social media -
Principal Research Scientist
Artificial intelligence for Science, Developing NLP/ML methods to extract trends of applying AI in difference fields of science -
Project Leader
Epidemic intelligence of infectious diseases using social media
Academic Qualifications
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2008
PhD Computer Science
RMIT University
Professional Experiences
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2012-present
Research Scientist
CSIRO -
2013-2015
Project Leader, Drug side-effect discovery project
CSIRO -
2008-2012
Researcher
NICTA -
2008-2012
Honorary Researcher
Melbourne University -
2011-2011
Semester 2, Guest Lecturer of Information Retrieval Course at School of Computer Science and Information Technology
RMIT University -
2005-2008
Sessional Tutor, Head Tutor, and Instructor
RMIT University
Achievements and Awards
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2023-2023
CIKM 2023 Runner-up best short paper
ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management -
2022-2022
Best short-paper Award
ALTA -
2020-2020
Best short-paper Award
ALTA -
2019-2019
Infrastructure and Platforms Innovation of the Year Merit Award (LIS-Accurait project)
iAwards NSW -
2019-2019
Business Service Markets Merit Award (LIS-Accurait project)
iAwards NSW -
2019-2019
Outstanding Reviewer
EMNLP Conference -
2018-2018
Outstanding Reviewer
EMNLP Conference -
2009-2009
Best full-paper award
ADCS -
2005-2008
International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS)
RMIT University -
2008-2008
Commendation on PhD Thesis to be of highest merit and internationally forefront in its field
RMIT University
Grants
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2018-2020
OCE grant for hiring a postdoc on Syndromic Surveillance from Social Media
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2021-2022
Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) 2021 Frontier Health and Medical Research Initiative (Led by UNSW Kirby Institute, EpiWatch Artificial Intelligence Early-Warning System for Epidemics)
Community and Corporate Citizenship
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2023-2025
Director of Publicity for Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
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2022-2023
Senior Area Chair (SAC) for ACL 2023, Resources and Evaluation track
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2019-2022
Deputy director of Publicity for Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
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2024-2024
Area Chair of ACL 2024 (ACL Rolling Review)
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2023-2024
Area Chair of NAACL 2024 (ACL Rolling Review)
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2023-2024
Area Chair of COLING-LREC 2024, Document Classification, Information Retrieval and Cross-lingual Retrieval track
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2024-2024
Awards co-chair of DICTA 2024
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2024-2024
Workshops co-chair of International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
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2023-2023
Program Committee of CHIIR 2024
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2023-2023
Program Committee of ECIR 2024
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2023-2023
Program Committee of IJCNLP-AACL 2023
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2023-2023
Program Committee of ACL BioNLP 2023
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2023-2023
Program Committee of AI-based Multimodal Data Analysis for Medical and Health Applications, ICONIP 2023
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2023-2023
Program Committee member for the IJCNLP-AACL 2023 WIESP Workshop
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2022-2022
Program Committee of EACL 2023
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2022-2022
Program Committee of ECIR 2023
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2022-2022
Program Committee of CHIIR 2023
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2022-2022
Program Committee of AACL-IJCNLP 2022
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2021-2021
Area Chair of EMNLP 2021, Information Retrieval and Text Mining track
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2020-2021
Reviewer of Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)
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2021-2021
Area Chair of ACL-IJCNLP 2021
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2019-2020
President of Australasian Language Technology Association
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2020-2020
Program committee of The Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021)
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2020-2020
Program Committee of ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2021)
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2020-2020
Area chair of EMNLP 2020, Machine Learning for NLP track
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2020-2020
Area Chair for ACL 2020, Resources and Evaluation Track
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2020-2020
Program Committee of AACL-IJCNLP
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2019-2019
Program Committee of AAAI
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2019-2019
Program Committee of ECML
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2019-2019
Program Committee of EMNLP
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2019-2019
Area chair of ACL 2019, Applications Track
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2019-2019
Program committee NAACL
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2018-2018
Program Comittee of IUI 2019
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2018-2018
Area chair of COLING 2018
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2018-2018
Program committee of EMNLP
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2017-2018
Publicity chair of ACL 2018
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2018-2018
Program committee of AMIA
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2018-2018
Program Committee of SIGIR demonstrations
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2017-2017
Area chair of ACL 2017
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2015-2016
Co-chair of Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS)
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2016-2021
Member of ADCS Steering commitee
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2015-2022
Member of ALTA executive committee
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2014 -2019
Program committee of ALTA
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2017-2018
Program committee of ADCS
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2016-2016
Program committee of ACL NEWS (Named Entities Workshop)
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2015-2015
Program Committee of CIKM
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2013-2013
Co-chair of Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA)
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2024-2024
Program Committee of COLM (Conference on Language Modeling)
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