Ani Nenkova is principal scientist at Adobe Research, currently on leave[1] from her position as an associate professor of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania.
[2] She then carried out doctoral work at Columbia University, where she was advised by Kathleen McKeown, earning a Ph.D. in computer science in 2006.
In the past, she has served as a member of the editorial board of Computational Linguistics (2009--2011), an associate editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (2015--2018), and a program co-chair for SIGDial 2014 and NAACL-HLT in 2016.
[4] In February of 2021, Nenkova started a new position at Adobe Research, joining the team as the head of the lab while on leave from Penn.
In Nenkova’s research on hidden meanings, or what makes “great” writing, and literature search automation,[6] she trains programs on word representation datasets that are curated by humans.