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Members of the ACL Ethics Committee

Luciana Benotti Luciana Benotti (luciana.benotti@unc.edu.ar, she/her) is an Associate Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, in Argentina. Her research interests cover many aspects of situated and grounded language, including the study of misunderstandings, bias, stereotypes, and clarification requests. She is the elected chair of the NAACL executive board and is also serving as a member at large of the ACL Ethics committee.
Mark Drezde Mark Drezde (mdredze@cs.jhu.edu, he/him) is a Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. I am the (Interim) Deputy Director for the JHU Data Science and AI Institute and the Associate Head of Research and Strategic Initiatives for the Department of Computer Science.
Karën Fort Karën Fort (karen.fort@loria.fr, she/her) is a Professor at the Université de Lorraine, in France and does her research at LORIA in Nancy, France. She has been working on ethics in NLP since 2014. She was co-chair of the first two ethics committees in the field (EMNLP 2020 and NAACL 2021) and is co-chair of the ACL ethics committee. She has been a member of the Sorbonne IRB (2019-2022) and teaches ethics at undergraduate and graduate levels in Paris, Nancy, and the University of Malta.
Pascale Fung Pascale Fung (pascale@ece.ust.hk, she/her) is a Chair Professor at the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), and a visiting professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
Dirk Hovy Dirk Hovy (dirk.hovy@unibocconi.it, he/him) is a Full Professor in the Computing Sciences Department of Bocconi University in Milan, where he leads the MilaNLP lab together with Debora Nozza. He is also the scientific director of the Data and Marketing Insights research unit.
Min-Yen Kan Min-Yen Kan (kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg, he/him): Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore and a co-chair of the ACL Ethics Committee. He has taught over 5,000 graduate and undergraduate students on his research interests in digital libraries, information retrieval and natural language processing.
Jin-Dong Kim Jin-Dong Kim (jdkim@dbcls.rois.ac.jp, he/him)
Malvina Nissim Malvina Nissim (m.nissim@rug.nl, she/her) works in Natural Language Processing and its application to societally relevant problems. Besides her research activities she is particularly active in science communication and outreach, including to school children, especially towards an aware and responsible use of language technologies. She was also invited by the European Council to give a plenary lecture on gender bias in Artificial Intelligence on International Women’s Day 2021. She was elected as the 2016 University of Groningen Lecturer of the Year.
Yulia Tsvetkov Yulia Tsvetkov (yuliats@cs.washington.edu, she/her) is an Assistant Professor at the Paul G.~Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, USA. Her research focuses on computational ethics, multilingual NLP, and machine learning for NLP. She developed a course on Computational Ethics in NLP and is teaching it at both undergraduate and graduate levels since 2017, and she is a co-chair of the ACL Ethics Committee.

Student Members of the ACL Ethics Committee

Fanny Ducel Fanny Ducel (fanny.ducel@universite-paris-saclay.fr, she/her) is a PhD candidate at the Université Paris-Saclay, in France. She works on stereotypical biases in LLMs. She also teaches ethics to international NLP graduates at the Université de Lorraine (France).
Guido Ivetta Guido Ivetta (guidoivetta@mi.unc.edu.ar, he/him) is a PhD candidate at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, in Argentina. His work focuses on language model calibration and biases.
Minzhi Li Minzhi Li (li.minzhi@u.nus.edu, she/her) is a PhD candidate at the National University of Singapore. Her main research interest is socially-aware NLP.