Emily M. Bender
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Emily is a computational linguist at the University of Washington.
Emily M. Bender has been a member of the faculty at the University of Washington since 2003. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Linguistics and the faculty director of the CLMS program and the director of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory. For 2019-2022, she was the Howard and Frances Nostrand Endowed Professor. She is an Adjunct Professor in both the School of Computer Science and Engineering and the Information School at UW, and a member of the Tech Policy Lab, Value Sensitive Design Lab, and RAISE.
She is the past Chair (2016-2017) of the Executive Board of NAACL and previously served as a member of the ICCL (2014-2018; the committee responsible for Coling). She is serving on the Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics from 2022-2025 as VP Elect, VP, President and then Past President. She is a fellow of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science; 2022).