Ph.D. - Computer Science
Cornell University

B.S. - Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

Clustering Documents along Multiple Dimensions. S. Dasgupta, R. M. Golden, and V. Ng. Proceedings of the 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12), 2012.    2012 - Publication

Translation-Based Projection for Multilingual Coreference Resolution. A. Rahman and V. Ng. Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT), 2012.   2012 - Publication

Learning the Fine-Grained Information Status of Discourse Entities. A. Rahman and V. Ng. Proceedings of the 13th Conference on the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-12), 2012.   2012 - Publication

Resolving Complex Cases of Definite Pronouns: The Winograd Schema Challenge. A. Rahman and V. Ng. Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL), 2012.    2012 - Publication

Simple and Fast Strong Cyclic Planning for Fully-Observable Nondeterministic Planning Problems. J. Fu, V. Ng, F. Bastani, and I.-L. Yen. Proceedings of the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11), 2011.  2011 - Publication

Learning Cause Identifiers from Annotator Rationales. M. A. Ul Abedin, V. Ng, and L. Khan. Proceedings of the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11), 2011.  2011 - Publication

Learning the Information Status of Noun Phrases in Spoken Dialogues. A. Rahman and V. Ng. Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-11), 2011.  2011 - Publication

Narrowing the Modeling Gap: A Cluster-Ranking Approach to Coreference Resolution. A. Rahman and V. Ng. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 40, pages 469-521, 2011.  2011 - Publication

AAAI-20 Blue Sky Idea Award - CCC [2020]

ESEC/FSE'19 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award - ACM [2019]

ECS Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award - UTD [2019]

Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas [2017–Present]
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

Associate Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas [2011–2017]
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas [2004–2011]
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

Three UTD CS Professors are Among This Year’s UTD Office of Research Seed Grant Winners

Drs. Andrian Marcus and Vincent Ng Create Automated System for Improving Computer Bug Reports

Jonsson School Recognizes Staff, Faculty and Researchers at the Annual Award Ceremony

UT Dallas CS Faculty Researchers Have Four Papers Accepted Into Internationally Renowned Artificial Intelligence Conference

UT Dallas Researchers Have Five Papers Accepted Into Prominent Software Engineering Conference

Journal Editorial Boards

• Action editor, ACL Rolling Review (2021-now)
• Associate editor,  Artificial Intelligence (2021-now)
• Action editor, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2020-now)
• Associate editor, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (2016-now)
•  Editorial board member, Computational Linguistics (2014-2016)

Conference Committees

• Best Paper Award Committee, COLING 2016, NLPCC 2017
• Program Co-Chair, EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, NLPCC 2018
• Senior Area Chair, IJCAI 2021, EMNLP 2020, IJCAI 2021, ACL-IJCNLP 2021
• Area Chair/Co-Chair, ACL 2012, NAACL HLT 2015, COLING 2016, NLPCC 2017, IJCAI-ECAI 2018, NAACL HLT 2019, ACL 2019, IJCAI 2019, ACL 2020, IJCAI-PRICAI 2020, AAAI 2021, NAACL HLT 2021, AAAI 2022, IJCAI-ECAI 2022
• Senior Program Committee, AAAI 2016, AAAI 2017, AAAI 2018, AAAI 2019, AAAI 2020
• Workshop Co-Chair, EMNLP 2018
• Tutorial Co-Chair, IJCNLP 2013
• Student Scholarship Chair and Student Volunteer Coordinator, EMNLP 2016
• Steering Committee, SemEval 2017

Tutorials

• AAAI 2018 Tutorial (Feb 3, 2018): Recent Advances and Applications in Markov Logic Networks (with D. Venugopal and V. Gogate)
• IJCAI 2017 Tutorial (Aug 21, 2017): Markov Logic Networks: Recent Advances and Practical Applications (with D. Venugopal)
• EMNLP 2016 Tutorial (Nov 1, 2016): Advanced Markov Logic Techniques for Scalable Joint Inference in NLP (with D. Venugopal and V. Gogate)
• IJCAI 2016 Tutorial (July 11, 2016): Coreference Resolution: Successes and Challenges
• Tutorial given at the 10th CIPS Summer School on Human Language Technology (July 24, 2015): Coreference Resolution

Workshop Organizer

• EMNLP 2021 Workshop on Computational models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC 2021)
• COLING 2020 Workshop on Computational models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC 2020)
• NAACL HLT 2019 Workshop on Computational models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC 2019)
• NAACL HLT 2018 Workshop on Computational models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC 2018)
• ACL 2018 Workshop on NLP Techniques for Educational Applications (NLP-TEA-5)
• EACL 2017 Workshop on Coreference Resolution Beyond OntoNotes (CORBON 2017)
• COLING 2016 Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLP-TEA-3)
• NAACL HLT 2016 Workshop on Coreference Resolution beyond OntoNotes (CORBON 2016)
• The 8th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN-8)

University Committees

• Vice Chair, Senate Committee on Effective Teaching (2015-2017)
• Member, UT Dallas ROTA selection committee (2017)
• Member, selection committee for President's Award for Undergraduate Teaching for Tenured/Tenure-track and Contingent Faculty (2017)

Miscellaneous

• Local organizer, North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) Dallas site (2009-2020)
•  Review panel, National Science Foundation (2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2020)
•  Ad-hoc proposal reviewer, National Science Foundation (2009) 
• Recent program committees and conference review panels:
  •  EMNLP-CoNLL 2012, AAAI 2012, ACL 2012, NAACL HLT 2012, EACL 2012, WWW 2012, SIGDIAL 2012, ROBUS-UNSUP 2012, ISPAN 2012
•  Journal referee (recent)
  •   Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (2012), International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (2012)
•  Panelist, Student Research Workshops at EACL 2009 and NAACL HLT 2009

Human Language Technology Research Institute

Center for Machine Learning and Language Processing