Scholar
Oana Ignat
Google Scholar ID: RzK4fWkAAAAJ
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Santa Clara University
Citations & Impact
Citations
357
H-index
12
i10-index
14
Publications
20
Co-authors
38
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- July 2025: Won the Best Resource Paper Award at ACL 2025; won the Best Task Award at Semeval-2025; April 2025: Won the Best Paper Award at C3NLP at NAACL 2025.
Research Experience
- Currently an Assistant Professor at Santa Clara University; previously a Postdoctoral Researcher, Graduate Research Assistant, Primary Instructor, and Engineering Teaching Consultant at the University of Michigan; Research Intern at Amazon Prime Video and Facebook FAIR.
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2022, advised by Rada Mihalcea.
Background
- Research interests: Intersection of Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision, with a current focus on AI for social good and AI for all, ensuring inclusive representations in language-vision models and datasets. Professional field: Computer Science and Engineering.
Miscellany
- Hometown: Botoșani, Romania; hobbies not specified; co-organizes NLP for Positive Impact Workshop (NLP4PI) and ACL Mentorship; works towards improving diversity in CS.
