Sixth Annual Yip Lecture | Regina Barzilay
Sixth Annual Yip Lecture
Date: April 23, 2026
Time: 4:00-5:00 pm ET
Location: Harvard Science Center Hall A
Speaker: Regina Barzilay, MIT
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Regina Barzilay is a Delta Electronics professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests are in natural language processing, applications of deep learning to chemistry and oncology. She is a recipient of various awards including the NSF Career Award, the MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, Microsoft Faculty Fellowship and several Best Paper Awards at NAACL and ACL. In 2017, she received a MacArthur fellowship, an ACL fellowship and an AAAI fellowship. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University, and spent a year as a postdoc at Cornell University.
The Yip Lecture takes place thanks to the support of Dr. Shing-Yiu Yip.