Friends in Comment—A Conversation With Regina Barzilay

This is the first of a series of interviews, named Friends in Comment, where I share conversationswith friends and colleagues in areas related to ours. This first interview is with Regina Barzilay. Regina is currently a School of Engineering Distinguished Professor for AI and Health with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is an AI faculty lead for Jameel Clinic, an MIT center for Machine Learning in Health. She was a postdoc with Cornell University, Itahaca, NY, USA, for a year. Her research interests include natural language processing.