All talks:

“Brave New World: AI, Higher Education, and the Future of Work”, at the AI and Future of Work Forum, Ras Al Khaimah; October 2025
“LLMs in Education: Novel Perspectives, Challenges, and Opportunities” tutorial at COLING 2025, Abu Dhabi; January 2025
Panelist on “Large Language Models (LLMs) and their Impact on Education” at NAACL, Mexico City; June 2024
Invited talk “AI in Education: A New Era and New Opportunities” at RIT Dubai; February 2024
Panelist on “Women in AI: Academia and Research Commercialization Panel Discussion” organized by startAD NYU Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi; November 2023
Panelist on “Digital Boundaries: Navigating the Ethical Terrain of Tech in Early Childhood Development Research” organized by Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority, Abu Dhabi; October 2023
Panelist on “AI and the Future of Education and Research” organized by the Women in AI UAE Community @GITEX23, Dubai; October 2023
Keynote “AI in Education: A New Era and New Opportunities” at The Future of Education with AI organized by ALECSO and the UAE Ministry of Education, Abu Dhabi; September 2023
Invited talk “How can NLP Help Us Generate Personalized Pedagogical Interventions in Intelligent Tutoring Systems?” at NRC Canada; April 2023
Invited talk “Automated Generation of Personalized Pedagogical Interventions in Intelligent Tutoring Systems” at ETH Zurich; March 2023
Invited talk “Impact of generative AI on students and educators” at Gulf News Edufair, Dubai; March 2023
Invited talk “Automated Generation of Pedagogical Interventions in Dialogue-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems” at the Deliberation4Good workshop, University of Cambridge; October 2022
Panelist on Industry Panel @ICAME43, Cambridge; July 2022
Invited talk “Multi-word expressions: Challenges in understanding, acquisition, and production” at the University of Sheffield; June 2022
Panelist on “Understanding the impact of writing assistants on ownership, authenticity, or originality” (In2Writing Workshop @ACL 2022), Dublin / virtual; May 2022
Invited talk “The Korbit AI-Powered Intelligent Tutoring System” at KidsLoop EdTech series, virtual; May 2022
Invited talk “Automated Generation of Personalized Pedagogical Interventions in Intelligent Tutoring Systems” at MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi; May 2022
Keynote “A new era: Intelligent tutoring systems will transform online learning for millions” at CUP&A Digital Data Day, Cambridge; April 2022
Panelist on “Education and AI: solutions, challenges and critical perspectives” (“Éducation et IA: solutions, enjeux et perspectives critiques”), Centre of Pedagogy, University of Montreal; April 2021
Invited speaker at the AAAI 2021 Spring Symposium on AI in K-12 Education, virtual; March 2021
Keynote speaker at live@Manning, a virtual conference by Manning Publications; August 2020
Keynote speaker at PyData, Cambridge, UK; November 2019
Invited talk at JPMorgan Chase AI Research Paper Club, London, UK; May 2019
Invited talk at Psychometrics Seminar, Cambridge, UK; May 2019
Invited talk at ARM, Cambridge, UK; January 2019
Invited talk at the Sutton Trust Summer School, Cambridge, UK; August 2018
Workshop organisation at Cambridge Artificial Intelligence Summit 2018, Cambridge, UK; June 2018
Invited talk at the ALMAnaCH, Inria, Paris, France; May 2018
Invited talk at the UCL Linguistics Society, London, UK; February 2018
Invited talk at AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK; November 2017
Workshop organisation at London Data Science Summit, London, UK; October 2017
Invited talk at the Sutton Trust Summer School, Cambridge, UK; August 2017
Invited talk at the Cambridge Coding Academy Summer School, Cambridge, UK; July 2017
Invited talk at the Summer School in Machine Learning for Digital English Language Teaching, Chania, Greece; July 2017
Invited talk at the Technology Ventures Conference, Cambridge, UK; June 2017
Invited talk at Cambridge Data Science Summit, Cambridge, UK; June 2017
Invited talk at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK; April 2017
Invited talk at the University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; October 2016
Invited talk at Cambridge Data Science Bootcamp, Cambridge, UK; March 2016
Invited talk at the University of Warwick, Warwick, UK; October 2015