Hi! I'm Natalie Parde.

I’m an Associate Professor and Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Co-Director of the UIC Natural Language Processing Laboratory. I am also a faculty member of the AI.Health4All Center for Health Equity using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, and an affiliate faculty of the UIC Honors College. My research interests are primarily in natural language processing, with emphases in healthcare applications, multimodality, and creative language.

To connect with me, find me on Twitter (@NatalieParde) or drop me an email at the address listed on my faculty profile. If you're interested in joining my research team, please read my note to prospective team members.