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Asif Ekbal is currently a Professor in the School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (AIDE), IIT Jodhpur. He has been pursuing research in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Applied Machine Learning since the last 20 years. He has authored around 300 papers in top-tier conferences and journals and conferences. His lectures include "Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing," "Deep Learning for Sentiment Analysis," "Empathetic AI: Teaching Computers Empathy and Politeness," and more.

The ACM Student Research Competition is an internationally recognized venue enabling undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world, share research results and exchange ideas, rub shoulders with academic and industry luminaries, understand the practical applications of their research and gain recognition.

Maria Soledad Pera is an Associate Professor in the Web Information Systems group at the Delft University of Technology. Her primary research interests include information retrieval and recommender systems as well as information access and web search. Pera was recently named (with George Neville-Neil) Co-Chair of the newly instituted ACM Globalization Board. The Board’s mission includes expanding ACM’s global footprint and supporting all computing professionals irrespective of their geographic location. In her interview, she discusses information retrieval, child-aware search environments, her role as Co-Chair of the ACM Globalization Board, and more.

Marco Dorigo is a Research Director for the Belgian Funds for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS) and Co-Director of IRIDIA, the artificial intelligence lab at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium. He was recently named an ACM Fellow for “establishing swarm intelligence as a research field.” Swarm intelligence is a subfield of artificial intelligence that studies how collective behavior in natural systems—such as ant colonies and beehives—can inform computational and engineering approaches. In his interview, he discusses the emergence of swarm intelligence as a research field, ant colony optimization, self-organizing nervous systems, and more.

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