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
Research Interests
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Min, D. J., Perez-Rosas, V., Resnicow, K., & Mihalcea, R. (2024). Dynamic Reward Adjustment in Multi-Reward Reinforcement Learning for Counselor Reflection Generation (pp. 5437–5449). ELRA and ICCL.
- 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 (pp. 8050–8094). ELRA and ICCL.
- 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
- Borah, A., Mihalcea, R., & Perez-Rosas, V. (n.d.). Persuasion at Play: Understanding Misinformation Dynamics in Demographic-Aware Human-LLM Interactions.
- Min, D. J., Perez-Rosas, V., Resnicow, K., & Mihalcea, R. (n.d.). Speech-Integrated Modeling for Behavioral Coding in Counseling (pp. 152–158). USA: Association for Computational Linguistics. Retrieved from https://aclanthology.org/2025.sigdial-1.10/
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Ten-Year Technical Impact Award Runner-Up Award, International Conference in Multimodal Interfaces. October 15, 2025 - Present
Featured service activities
- Member
MS Committee
- Editor
Association of Computational Linguistics. Rolling Review
- Member
Advisory Committee. Rheumatology Research Foundation. Scientist Development Award (RRF SDA)
- Co-Chair
ACL Rolling Review NAACL 2024
- Reviewer / Referee
Panel NSF SMALL Projects Panel on AI/NLP/IR
- Co-Chair
Diversity and Inclusion EMNLP 2024