Rate My Professor Monojit Choudhury

Professor Monojit Choudhury is Professor of Natural Language Processing at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). His research interests center around the convergence of language technology and society, exploring the learning and (mis)representation of linguistic and cultural diversity by foundation models, the impact of representational disparities on technology use, and the development of fair and equitable language technologies. He is also interested in leveraging generative AI for planetary-scale quantitative investigations into and modeling of culture.

Prior to joining MBZUAI, Professor Choudhury served as a principal researcher at Microsoft Research India from 2009 to 2022 and as a principal applied scientist at Microsoft Turing from 2022 to 2023. He holds adjunct faculty positions at the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad since 2017 and is a professor of practice at Plaksha University since 2021. He received a Media Lab Asia research fellowship from 2002 to 2007 and holds a US patent on automatic request categorization of Internet applications. Professor Choudhury is general chair of the Panini Linguistics Olympiad and founding co-chair of the Asia Pacific Linguistics Olympiad. He has served as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence since 2023 and of ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-resource Language Information Processing from 2017 to 2020, as well as action editor of ACL Rolling Review and program co-chair for ACM COMPASS 2023. His awards include best paper awards at the IJCAI 2007 workshop on Noisy Unstructured Text Data and Evolang 2012, and the Young Scientist Award from the Indian Science Congress Association in 2003. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and a BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and completed postdoctoral work at Microsoft Research India.