Olga Vechtomova
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Olga VechtomovaBiography summary
Olga Vechtomova is a Professor in the Department of Management Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, and is cross-appointed in the School of Computer Science.
Professor Vechtomova leads the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Lab at the University of Waterloo. Her research is focused on designing deep neural network architectures for a variety of natural language understanding, natural language generation and information retrieval tasks. The current and recent projects in the NLP lab include controlled text generation, text style transfer, multimodal representation learning, text summarization, disentangled representation learning and artistic applications of text generative models. She is a member of the Waterloo.AI institute.
Research interests
- natural language generation
- artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- natural language processing
- computational linguistics
- AI and creativity
Education
- 2001, Doctorate, Information Science, City University, London
Selected/recent publications
- Vechtomova, Olga and Sahu, Gaurav and Kumar, Dhruv, LyricJam: A system for generating lyrics for live instrumental music, Proc. of the 12th Conference on Computational Creativity, 2021
- Bahuleyan, Hareesh and Mou, Lili and Vechtomova, Olga and Poupart, Pascal, Variational Attention for Sequence-to-Sequence Models, COLING, 08 2018, Santa Fe
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Graduate studies
- Currently considering applications from graduate students. A completed online application is required for admission; start the application process now.
- Has Approved Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor (ADDS) status