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)