Dr. Karen Mazidi

Assistant Professor of Instruction

Director of IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility)

Degrees:

• Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas
• M.S., Computer Science, University of North Texas
• B.A., Computer Science, Baylor University

Research Interests:

• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence

Recent Awards:

• Nominee Best Paper, 2016 Intelligent Tutoring Systems Conference
• Grace Hopper Scholar 2015
• UNT Graduate Exhibition, 1^st Place 2014

Representative Publications:

• Karen Mazidi and Paul Tarau (2016), “Infusing NLU into Automatic Question Generation”, International Natural Language Generation Conference Edinburgh, Scotland , September 2016.
• Karen Mazidi and Paul Tarau (2016), “Automatic Question Generation: From NLU to NLG”, Intelligent Tutoring Systems Conference, Zagreb, Croatia, June 2016.
• Karen Mazidi and Rodney Nielsen (2015) “Leveraging Multiple Views of Text for Automatic Question Generation”, Artificial Intelligence in Education Conference, Madrid, Spain, June 2015.
• Karen Mazidi and Rodney Nielsen (2014), “Linguistic Considerations in Automatically Generated Questions,” Association for Computational Linguistics Conference, Baltimore Maryland, June 2014.
• Karen Janice Mazidi and Muhammad Ali Mazidi. X86 PC: Assembly Language, Design and Interfacing, 5^th edition 2010.

Notable Service:

• UTD WMWE Women Mentoring Women in Engineering
• Reviewer, IEEE Transactions Learning Technologies
• NAACL Co-Chair Student Research Workshop 2015