Dr. Vered Shwartz


Assistant Professor

Computer Science

Faculty of Science

Research Themes:  Evolving Language in an Information Economy

Vered Shwartz is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Vered's research interests focus on natural language processing, with the fundamental goal of building models capable of human-level understanding of natural language. She is interested in commonsense reasoning, computational semantics and pragmatics, and multiword expressions. Before joining UBC, Vered was a postdoctoral researcher at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) and the University of Washington.

She received her PhD in Computer Science from Bar-Ilan University in 2019. Vered's work has been recognized with several awards, including The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Postdoctoral Award for Women in Mathematical and Computing Sciences, the Clore Foundation Scholarship, and an ACL 2016 outstanding paper award.

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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