Dr. Sarah Chen
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Stanford University
My research focuses on natural language processing, machine learning, and the intersection of language understanding with knowledge representation.
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Positions
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Stanford University
2022 – Present
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Stanford University
2018 – 2022
Postdoctoral Researcher, CSAIL
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2016 – 2018
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
2011 – 2016 · Advisor: Prof. Noah Smith
Thesis: Structured Prediction for Semantic Parsing: A Neural Approach
Thesis: Structured Prediction for Semantic Parsing: A Neural Approach
B.S. in Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude
University of Michigan
2007 – 2011
Awards & Honors
- NSF CAREER Award — 2026
- Sloan Research Fellowship — 2023
- ACL Best Paper Award — 2022
- ACL Best Dissertation Award — 2017
- Google Faculty Research Award — 2020
- Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship — 2014
Professional Service
- Area Chair — ACL 2024, 2025; EMNLP 2023, 2024; NeurIPS 2025
- Senior Program Committee — AAAI 2024, IJCAI 2025
- Editorial Board — Transactions of the ACL (TACL), 2022–present
- Workshop Organizer — NeurIPS Workshop on Reliable AI, 2025
- Reviewer — JMLR, NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, EMNLP
Technical Skills
- Languages: Python, C++, Java, SQL, LaTeX
- Frameworks: PyTorch, JAX, Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy
- Tools: Git, Docker, Weights & Biases, SLURM, AWS
- Spoken Languages: English (native), Mandarin Chinese (native), French (intermediate)