Sameera Horawalavithana

Affiliation

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Biography

Dr. Sameera Horawalavithana is a data scientist in Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s (PNNL) Physical and Computational Science Directorate. He is a researcher and practitioner of natural language processing and large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) models across multiple data modalities, such as language and vision. He has authored more than 35 peer reviewed papers, including publications at premier AI conferences and workshops. He recently serves as the Area Chair for Association of Computational Linguistic (ACL), a premier NLP conference and was recently appointed as an Associate Editor in the IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence and an Editorial board member in the Nature, Humanities and Social Sciences.