Kentaro Inui （乾 健太郎）

Professor, Language Model Interpretability Team, NLP Department, MBZUAI, UAE
Professor, Tohoku NLP Group (Center for Language AI Research), Tohoku University, Japan
Leader of Natural Language Understanding Team, RIKEN AIP, Japan

email: kentaro.inui (at) mbzuai.ac.ae
phone: +971 2 811 3282
twitter: @inuikentaro
Masdar City, Building 1B, 3rd Floor, Abu Dhabi, UAE

I am a Professor in the NLP Department at MBZUAI in UAE. My research encompasses a broad spectrum of NLP domains, focusing primarily on the computational modeling of semantics and discourse, knowledge-intensive reasoning for language comprehension, and the interpretability and trustworthiness of neural language and multi-modal models. I am also interested in the educational applications of NLP, conducting research in areas such as explainable automated writing evaluation and argumentation diagnosis. Before joining MBZUAI, I led the NLP Lab at Tohoku University Japan for over ten years and the Natural Language Understanding Team at RIKEN for seven years in Japan. In addition to my role at MBZUAI, I actively retain affiliations with both institutions, engaging in close collaborations and ongoing research initiatives.

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