Ekaterina Kochmar

Ekaterina Kochmar is an Assistant Professor in the Natural Language Processing Department at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). She specializes in artificial intelligence and natural language processing, with a focus on intelligent tutoring systems. Her research interests include author profiling, computational semantics, readability assessment, language complexity, text simplification, summarization, and error detection and correction. A significant aspect of her work involves applying machine learning techniques to educational contexts, particularly in second language learning and assessment.13

Before her current position at MBZUAI, Kochmar was a Lecturer at the University of Bath from 2021 to 2023 and a postdoctoral researcher at the ALTA Institute at the University of Cambridge, where she developed educational applications for second language learners. She is also the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Korbit AI, which aims to create an AI-powered dialogue-based tutoring system for personalized education in STEM subjects.123

Kochmar holds a PhD in Natural Language Processing and has authored over 30 peer-reviewed research papers. She is actively involved in the academic community, serving as the President of the ACL Special Interest Group on Educational Applications (SIGEDU) and the International Alliance to Advance Learning in the Digital Era (IAALDE).13