Smaranda Muresan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Barnard College, Columbia University and an Amazon Scholar. Before joining Barnard in 2024, she was a Research Scientist at the Data Science Institute at Columbia University. Her research focuses on human-centric Natural Language Processing for social good and responsible computing. She develops theory-guided and knowledge-aware computational models for understanding and generating language in context (e.g., visual, social, multilingual, multicultural) with applications to computational social science, education, public health and creativity support. Recently, her research interests include explainable models and human-AI collaboration frameworks. She served as a board member for the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 2020-2021, as a co-founder and co-chair of the New York Academy of Sciences’ Annual Symposium on NLP/Dialog/Speech (2019-2020) and as a Program Co-Chair for SIGDIAL 2020 and ACL 2022.