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.