Rate My Professor Thamar Solorio

Thamar Solorio serves as Vice Provost of Faculty Excellence and Advancement and Professor of Natural Language Processing at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence. Her research centers on information extraction problems involving structured prediction, multilingual models with particular attention to mixed language settings, low-resource natural language processing, and multimodal content understanding. Before her appointment at MBZUAI, Professor Solorio held the position of Professor of Computer Science at the University of Houston, where she founded and directed the RiTUAL Lab. She previously worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She earned her Ph.D. and master’s degrees in computer science from the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics in Mexico and her B.Sc. in computer systems engineering from the Autonomous University of Chihuahua in Mexico.

Professor Solorio received the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2014 for research on authorship attribution and the 2014 Denice Denton Emerging Leader ABIE Award. She is serving a second term as an elected board member of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and served as program committee co-chair for NAACL 2019. She is co-editor-in-chief of the ACL Rolling Review and a member of its advisory board. In 2022 she was awarded a United States patent for work on recommendation systems for books. Professor Solorio has coauthored more than 200 publications across a range of natural language processing topics. Her professional contributions include leadership roles in major computational linguistics organizations and initiatives that support the advancement of the field.