We are once again offering the workshops "From Awareness to Action: Integrating EDI in Research" through Concordia's Equity Office this month. This 2-part workshop series is mandatory for all CREATE trainees. If you have previously completed both sessions in May 2024, you do not need to sign up again.

Date and time: 2 Thursdays October 23rd and 30th, 2025 from 10:00 - 11:30AM (please note you must attend both sessions)

Format: online delivery        

Concordia students please register via this link: https://go.concordia.ca/workshops/workshop-details/?workshop_events_id=f9ac1680-4679-f011-b4cc-000d3ae98069

Non-Concordia students, please contact Anim at gradproskills@concordia.ca who will register you manually.

The deadline to register is Mon. Oct. 20th.

Talk Title: Bridging the World with Words: Multilingual and Multicultural Natural Language Processing.

Dr. Lee will give a guest lecture talk in Prof. Jinqiu Yang's graduate course this Thursday starting at 2:45pm.

Location and time: Thurs. Oct. 9th, 2:45pm, in MB S2. 455 or

online via Zoom: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/88268866640?pwd=yGAEvDX4VXFCL9ZCPdFXuzGJfrrUPQ.1&jst=2

About the Speaker:

Professor Annie En-Shiun Lee is an assistant professor at OntarioTech University and the University of Toronto (status-only). Professor Lee’s goal is to make language technology as inclusive and accessible to as many people as possible, under the institutional vision “Tech with a Conscience”. Professor Lee directs the Lee Language Lab (L^3) with research focusing on multilingual and multicultural natural language processing and large language models, especially in the adoption of technology and its usability for disenfranchised or underserved groups at risk of being left behind the digital divide. Professor Lee’s research has been published in Nature Digital Medicine, ACM Computing Survey, ACL (EACL, NAACL, ACL), SIGCSE, IEEE TKDE, and Bioinformatics. Dr. Lee is the demo co-chair for NAACL 2024 and has received numerous recognitions, including Outstanding Paper Award and Best Theme Paper Award at NAACL 2025, Audience Award at Teaching NLP 2024, ARIA Spotlight Award for MScAC 2024, as well as nominated for Tim McTiernan Student Mentorship Award 2025, and Women in AI Researcher of the Year Award 2025."