Aslı Çelikyılmaz

Aslı Çelikyılmaz is an engineer specializing in natural language processing, and particularly in natural language generation for software agents with advanced reasoning and real-world modeling capabilities. Educated in Turkey and Canada, she works in the US as senior research lead at Fundamentals AI Research, Meta.[1] She also holds an affiliate faculty position in computer science at the University of Washington,[2] and is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics.[3]

Education and career

Çelikyılmaz is a 1997 graduate of Istanbul Technical University, where she studied industrial engineering. After a 2002 master's degree in computer and information science from Seneca Polytechnic in Toronto, and a second master's degree in information science from the University of Toronto in 2005, she completed a Ph.D. in information science at the University of Toronto in 2008.[4]

She worked as a postdoctoral researcher in California, at the University of California, Berkeley, from 2008 to 2010. In 2010 she joined Microsoft in Sunnyvale, California, where she became a senior scientist[4] and later a senior principal researcher in Redmond, Washington. She added her affiliation with the University of Washington in 2018, and moved to Meta in Seattle in 2021.[5]

Recognition

Çelikyılmaz was named to the 2026 class of IEEE Fellows, "for contributions to conversational systems and language generation".[6]

References

  1. ^ Candidate biographies, Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025, retrieved 2026-01-08
  2. ^ "Affiliate faculty", People, University of Washington Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, retrieved 2026-01-08
  3. ^ "Editorial team", Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (publisher web site), Association for Computational Linguistics, retrieved 2026-01-08
  4. ^ a b Celikyilmaz, Asli (November 2014), Short resume (PDF), Microsoft, retrieved 2026-01-08
  5. ^ Celikyilmaz, Asli, Bio, retrieved 2026-01-08
  6. ^ IEEE Fellow Class of 2026, IEEE, retrieved 2026-01-08
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