Joyce Chai is a professor in the Computer Science and Engineering division at the University of Michigan. She is an affiliated faculty member with [Michigan Robotics (http://robotics.umich.edu). Her research interests are in the area of artificial intelligence, particularly on natural language processing, multimodal large language models, situated and embodied agents, human-robot communication, and intelligent user interfaces. Her recent work has focused on grounded language processing to facilitate situated communication with robots and other AI agents. She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University.

Selected Awards

• EECS Outstanding Achievement Award (2024), University of Michigan
• Outstanding Paper Award, ACL (2023)
• Honorable Mention, ACL (2023)
• SEAGULL Team - Winner of the Amazon Alexa Prize Simbot Challenge (2023)
• ACL Fellow (2022)
• Outstanding Paper Award, EMNLP (2021)
• William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award, Michigan State University (2018)
• Withrow Distinguished Senior Scholar Award, College of Engineering, MSU (2017)
• Best Long Paper Award, ACL (2010)
• NSF Career Award (2004)