Organizers








Organizing Committee

General Chair: Haizhou Li, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Program Chairs:

    • Gina-Anne Levow, University of Washington, USA
    • Zhou Yu, Columbia University, USA

Publication Chair: Jessy Li, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Sponsorship Chair: David Vandyke, Apple, UK

Mentoring Chair: Nina Dethlefs, University of Hull, UK

Finance Chair: Yan Wu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

SIGdial President: Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

SIGdial Vice President: Mikio Nakano, C4A Research Institute, Japan

SIGdial Secretary: Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA

SIGdial Treasurer: Ethan Selfridge, LivePerson, USA

SIGdial President Emeritus: Jason Williams, Apple, USA

Mailing List Maintainer: Amanda Stent, Bloomberg, USA

Senior Program Committee:

    • Asli Celikyilmaz
    • Yun-Nung Chen
    • Katherine Forbes-Riley
    • Milica Gasic
    • Ryuichiro Higashinaka
    • Annie Louis
    • Mikio Nakano
    • Vincent Ng
    • Rebecca J. Passonneau
    • Gabriel Skantze
    • David Traum
    • Koichiro Yoshino

Local Arrangement:

    • Berrak Sisman (chair)
    • Chitralekha Gupta (chair)
    • Siqi Cai (chair)
    • Bidisha Sharma (co-chair, events, registration)
    • Yan Zhang (co-chair, technical program)
    • Chen Zhang (co-chair, technical program)
    • Grandee Lee (co-chair, student volunteers)
    • Yan Wu (co-chair, social events)
    • Lei Wang (COLIPS Liaison)
    • Celine Cheong (co-chair, venue)
    • Min Yuan (co-chair, venue)
    • Kun Zhou (co-chair, artwork)
    • Yi Zhou (co-chair, technical support)
    • Rui Liu (co-chair, technical support)
    • Mingyang Zhang (co-chair, technical support)
    • Minghui Dong (COLIPS board)