Faculty Profile for Veronica Perez-Rosas

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Veronica Perez-Rosas
Assistant Professor — Computer Science
CMAL 211
phone: (512) 245-3409
Scholarly/Creative Work
Service

Biography Section

Biography and Education

 Veronica Perez-Rosas is an Assistant Professor at Texas State University. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of North Texas in 2014 and was an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan until August 2024. Her research interests include natural language processing, machine learning, affect recognition, and multimodal processing of human behavior. Her research focuses on developing computational methods to analyze, recognize, and predict human behaviors during social interactions. She has authored papers in leading conferences and journals in Natural Language Processing and Multimodal Processing, has mentored numerous students in these research areas, and has served as workshop chair or area chair for multiple international conferences in the same fields.

Teaching Interests

 Natural language processing, ethics, information retrieval and web search, artificial intelligence

Research Interests

 Natural language processing, computational linguistics, large language models, multimodal learning, health analytics, affect recognition

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Min, D. J., Perez-Rosas, V., Resnicow, K., & Mihalcea, R. (2024). Dynamic Reward Adjustment in Multi-Reward Reinforcement Learning for Counselor Reflection Generation. LREC-COLING 2024.
  • Ignat, O., Jin, Z., Abzaliev, A., Biester, L., Castro, S., Deng, N., … Mihalcea, R. (2024). Has It All Been Solved? Open NLP Research Questions Not Solved by Large Language Models. To Appear in LREC-COLING 2024.
  • Mihalcea, R., Biester, L., Boyd, R. L., Jin, Z., Perez-Rosas, V., Wilson, S., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2024). How developments in natural language processing help us in understanding human behaviour. Nature Human Behaviour, 8(10), 1877–1889. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01938-0
  • Min, D. J., Perez-Rosas, V., Resnicow, K., & Mihalcea, R. (2024). Evaluating Language Models for Assessing Counselor Reflections. ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare. https://doi.org/10.1145/3709364
  • Gunal, A., Stewart, I., Mihalcea, R., & Perez-Rosas, V. (2023). Understanding the Role of Questions in Mental Health Support-Seeking Forums. In Health Intelligence Workshop at AAAI 2023.

Selected Service Activities

Member
MS Committee
August 24, 2024-Present
Co-Chair
ACL Rolling Review NAACL 2024
January 20, 2024-December 20, 2024
Reviewer / Referee
Panel NSF SMALL Projects Panel on AI/NLP/IR
December 18, 2024-December 19, 2024
Co-Chair
Diversity and Inclusion EMNLP 2024
March 1, 2024-November 28, 2024