Alexander Kotov

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Wayne State University
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Contact information:
Office: Maccabees Building, Suite 14001.6 (14th floor)
Email: my last name at wayne dot edu
Phone: (313) 577-9307

Mailing address:
Computer Science Department, Wayne State University
5057 Woodward Ave, Suite 14001.6
Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL Ph.D. in Computer Science	2006 - 2011
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL M.S. in Computer Science	2004 - 2006

Professional Experience

Associate Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI	August 2020 - present
Assistant Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI	August 2013 - August 2020
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Emory University, Atlanta, GA	September 2011 - July 2013
Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA	June 2010 - August 2010
Research Intern, Yahoo! Labs, Santa Clara, CA	June 2008 - September 2008

Awards and Honors

Citation award at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM 2019)	2019
Best Short Paper honorable mention at the 40th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017)	2017
Best Short Paper award at the 11th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2015)	2015
First place in Task A of the 2015 TREC Clinical Decision Support (CDS) track	2015
Best Reviewer for the Join Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL)	2012
UIUC Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students	Spring 2005

External Funding

Sponsor	Award	Role	Period
National Institutes of Health	R21 NR020388 "Neural Conversational Agent for Automated Weight Loss Counseling"	PI	03/08/2023 - 02/28/2025
National Institutes of Health	U19 HD089875 "Scale it up: Effectiveness-Implementation Research to Enhance HIV-related Self-Management among Youth"	Sub-contract PI	01/01/2020 - 05/16/2021
National Institutes of Health	R21 DK108071 "Automated Coding of eCoaching Exchanges to Promote Healthier Eating"	MPI	09/01/2016 - 08/30/2018
Ford Motor Company	"Extraction of Actionable Insights from On-line Automotive Consumer Reviews"	PI	06/01/2014 - 08/31/2014

Funding Agency Panelist

National Science Foundation: 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021-2024

Senior PC Membership / Area Chair / Meta-reviewer

2022 Machine Learning for Healthcare Workshop at NeurIPS (ML4H'22)
2021 Machine Learning for Healthcare Workshop at NeurIPS (ML4H'21)
2020 Machine Learning for Healthcare Workshop at NeurIPS (ML4H'20)

PC membership (past 3 years)

Journal reviewer (past 3 years)

Session Chair

27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018), Turin, Italy
2019 Informatics Summits of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA Summits 2019), San Francisco, USA

Local Organizer

41st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018)