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<p><span style="padding-right:2px;"><i class="icon-envelope"></i></span> nakoury (at) cornell (dot) edu</p>
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After years of working as a lead/AI developer in video games and then
as an engineering manager at Yelp, I reassessed my career path so I
could pursue my lifelong desire to create engaging
<em><b>interactive storytelling</b></em> experiences. My research
focuses on <em><b>fundamental advances in NLP</b></em> and
<em><b>creative use of language</b></em>.
</p>
<p>I am currently a postdoc at <a
target="_blank" href="https://infosci.cornell.edu">Cornell Information Science</a> working with <a
target="_blank" href="https://qianyang.co">Qian Yang</a>.
I completed my PhD in CS advised by <a
target="_blank" href="https://cs.umass.edu/~miyyer">Mohit Iyyer</a> at <a
target="_blank" href="https://www.cics.umass.edu/">UMass Amherst</a>.
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<h1>Updates</h1>
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<ul>
<li>
<strong>June 2024: </strong>I will be serving as Senior Area Chair for Generation @ ACL 2025
</li>
<li>
<strong>Apr 2024: </strong>It's official! I successfully defended my PhD.
</li>
<li>
<strong>Nov 2023: </strong>Launched <a href="https://pl.aiwright.dev">pl.aiwright</a>!
</li>
<li>
<strong>Oct 2023: </strong>I've accepted a postdoc position @Cornell working with <a href="https://qianyang.co">Qian Yang</a> on HCI+NLP!
</li>
<li>
<strong>Oct 2023: </strong>Paper <a href="papers/discoelysium_emnlp_2023.pdf">exploring player perceptions of LLM-generated dialogue in video games</a> accepted to @Findings of EMNLP 2023
</li>
<li>
<strong>Feb 2023: </strong>Presenting <a href="papers/discoelysium_aaai_2023.pdf">preliminary work</a> on dialogue generation for narrative-driven video games @<a href="https://creativeai-ws.github.io">Creative AI Across Modalities</a> AAAI 2023
</li>
<li>
<strong>Dec 2022: </strong>Co-organizing for <a href="https://sites.google.com/umass.edu/wnu2023">The Fifth Workshop on Narrative Understanding</a> @ACL 2023
</li>
<li>
<strong>May 2022: </strong>Recognized as an <a href="https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2022.acl-long.pdf">Outstanding Reviewer (top 2.5%)</a> @ACL 2022
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<h1>Nader Akoury</h1>
</div>
<div class="contactbox">
<p><span style="padding-right:2px;"><i class="icon-envelope"></i></span> nakoury (at) cornell (dot) edu</p>
<p><span style="padding-left:2px; padding-right:4px;"><i class="icon-file"></i></span> <a target="_blank" href="vita/cv.pdf" download="nader_akoury_cv.pdf">curriculum vitae (CV)</a></p>
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<span class="ss"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Nader-Akoury/32362256"><i class="ai ai-semantic-scholar-square ai-2x"></i> </a> </span>
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<div class="main">
<p>
After years of working as a lead/AI developer in video games and then
as an engineering manager at Yelp, I reassessed my career path so I
could pursue my lifelong desire to create engaging
<em><b>interactive storytelling</b></em> experiences. My research
focuses on <em><b>fundamental advances in NLP</b></em> and
<em><b>creative use of language</b></em>.
</p>
<p>I am currently a postdoc at <a
target="_blank" href="https://infosci.cornell.edu">Cornell Information Science</a> working with <a
target="_blank" href="https://qianyang.co">Qian Yang</a>.
I completed my PhD in CS advised by <a
target="_blank" href="https://cs.umass.edu/~miyyer">Mohit Iyyer</a> at <a
target="_blank" href="https://www.cics.umass.edu/">UMass Amherst</a>.
</p>
<h1>Updates</h1>
<div class="news">
<ul>
<li>
<strong>June 2024: </strong>I will be serving as Senior Area Chair for Generation @ ACL 2025
</li>
<li>
<strong>Apr 2024: </strong>It's official! I successfully defended my PhD.
</li>
<li>
<strong>Nov 2023: </strong>Launched <a href="https://pl.aiwright.dev">pl.aiwright</a>!
</li>
<li>
<strong>Oct 2023: </strong>I've accepted a postdoc position @Cornell working with <a href="https://qianyang.co">Qian Yang</a> on HCI+NLP!
</li>
<li>
<strong>Oct 2023: </strong>Paper <a href="papers/discoelysium_emnlp_2023.pdf">exploring player perceptions of LLM-generated dialogue in video games</a> accepted to @Findings of EMNLP 2023
</li>
<li>
<strong>Feb 2023: </strong>Presenting <a href="papers/discoelysium_aaai_2023.pdf">preliminary work</a> on dialogue generation for narrative-driven video games @<a href="https://creativeai-ws.github.io">Creative AI Across Modalities</a> AAAI 2023
</li>
<li>
<strong>Dec 2022: </strong>Co-organizing for <a href="https://sites.google.com/umass.edu/wnu2023">The Fifth Workshop on Narrative Understanding</a> @ACL 2023
</li>
<li>
<strong>May 2022: </strong>Recognized as an <a href="https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2022.acl-long.pdf">Outstanding Reviewer (top 2.5%)</a> @ACL 2022
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