Natalie Parde

Applications for the UChicago XLab 2026 Summer Research Fellowship are open! The Fellowship runs June 15 – Aug 22 It's made for early career researchers in AI safety, nuclear security, and governance to develop their research agendas. Fellows are given a 10k stipend + housing and food! I had a great time and met some of my best friends & close collaborators there last summer. If you're interested in exploring these topics, you should apply! Deadline: March 15 at 11:59 PM Apply here: xrisk.uchicago.edu/fellowship/srf…

I’m co-founding Second Look Research with @zephaniahbroe and we are accepting summer fellowship applications for 2026! Fellows will come to the University of Chicago, complete 2-3 replications over 10 weeks (June 15-August 22), and work with external advisors. Fellows will receive a stipend of $10,000 and we will to cover housing and meals. secondlookresearch.com

New year, new opportunities!🎉 Our lab @lark_nlp_lab is growing so fast and we have a postdoc opening focused on foundational LLM & NLP research (reasoning, uncertainty, efficiency) at CU Anschutz, recently ranked among the top 5 research hospitals globally (by Nature index). If interested, feel free to apply: cu.taleo.net/careersection/…

@EhudReiter Happy Birthday!!

Just turned 65 today, feels like a milestone. Definitely feel old now...

✨I'm working on an AI platform for grant applications (not the writing!—mostly a co-pilot for everything else) & we are trying to prioritize the next set of features. If you worked on grants before or are about to start, I’d really appreciate your input! ➡️ shorturl.at/hLaCW Many thanks! 🙏🏼

@fredahshi @xLuo_CompLing I will see you there (and congrats on an impressive first batch of last-author papers)!!

I'll be at #ACL2025NLP from next Monday to Wednesday! Here's a snapshot of my first batch of papers as the last author, plus helping the amazing lab member @xLuo_CompLing to present her TACL work after being in the audience for 3 times. DM me if you'd like to catch up in person!

📢The ACL 2025 Proceedings are LIVE🎆on the ACL Anthology! 🎉 We're thrilled to pre-celebrate the incredible research that will be presented starting Monday, July 28th, in Vienna! 🇦🇹 Start exploring now▶️aclanthology.org/events/acl-202… #NLProc #ACL2025NLP #ACLAnthology 📚

🤯 Get ready for #ACL2025NLP! featuring 3500+ paper presentations (talks & posters!), numerous workshops, several tutorials, insightful keynotes, and engaging panels? 📚🎤💡 Deep dive into the latest in #NLProc! Check out the full program here: 2025.aclweb.org/program/

WiNLP 2025 Call for Papers is LIVE! 📢 Underrepresented NLP researchers, submit thesis proposals or research papers by Aug 1 to join us at EMNLP in Suzhou. Apply for pre-submission mentorship NOW by June 20! winlp.org/call-for-submi… #WiNLP #EMNLP2025 #NLProc

📢 I am looking for a postdoc for the next academic year! (Due to the funding source, US persons preferred) Interested in multimodal LLMs and their application to education domains (plus multilinguality, cross-lingual, and low-resource learning)? Contact me here/email if yes!

@HertzFoundation @CadeGordonML @Stanford Congrats Cade!! 🎉

🎓🤖 We’re thrilled to welcome @CadeGordonML to the 2025 class of Hertz Fellows! Cade’s AI research is advancing biomedical discovery. A future PhD student at @Stanford, he joins a growing community shaping the future of #science and #tech! 🔗 bit.ly/4daXZLO

📢 Join us for the ACL Mentorship Session @naaclmeeting #NAACL2025 • Session Link: mentorship.aclweb.org/schedule • Ask Questions: app.sli.do/event/kzWigUJa… Mentors: • @amuuueller (@BUCompSci) • @fredahshi (@UWCheritonCS @VectorInst) • @maojiayuan (@MIT_CSAIL) • @ziqiao_ma (@UMichCSE) • @OanaIgnatRo (@SantaClaraUniv) • @WeijiaShi2 (@uwnlp) • @ZhijingJin (@UofTCompSci)

My lab @lark_nlp_lab has postdoc openings: if you are interested in developing advanced methods to enhance LLMs for healthcare applications, please apply! We have exciting projects awaiting! cu.taleo.net/careersection/…

I am looking for a postdoc. A serious-looking call coming soon, but this is to get it going. Topics include (but not limited to): LLMs (🫢!), multimodal LLMs, interaction+learning, RL, intersection with cogsci, ... see our work to get an idea: yoavartzi.com/pubs Plz RT 🙏

CMU LTI is hosting predoc interns this summer, centered around "Language Technologies for All"! Please apply and circulate! lti.cs.cmu.edu/news-and-event…

📢#ACL2025 is inviting nominations and self-nominations to the ACL 2025 programme committee (reviewers or area chair) ➡️ forms.gle/Yu34Z13YzQ3sM8… deadline for nominations 🗓️ 16 Dec 2024. 🙏

Don’t choose PhD programs by rankings—they may not be a good fit for you (& everyone applies there!) Instead, focus on potential advisors. How to find them? 1. Pick your top 20-40 favorite papers 2. Find the authors in academic positions 3. Apply to their schools Good luck!🍀

- Domain Adaptation via Prompt Learning for Alzheimer’s Detection: aclanthology.org/2024.findings-… (Thursday 2:00-3:30 p.m. during the Poster Session) See you around all week! 🏝️

Make sure to check out my group's papers, both led by recent alumnus Dr. Shahla Farzana! - CareCorpus+: Expanding and Augmenting Caregiver Strategy Data to Support Pediatric Rehabilitation: aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-mai… (Wednesday 4:00-5:30 p.m. NLP Applications 1 session, in Flagler)

In Miami this week for #EMNLP2024 🏝️ looking forward to tropical weather and #NLProc research! Prospective PhD students, I'm recruiting 1-2 students for Fall 2025 so stop me at a coffee break if you'd like to chat 💬☕️