Oana Ignat

Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Santa Clara University

Joined

February 2020

Names

Oana Ignat (Preferred)

Emails

****@umich.edu (Confirmed)

****@scu.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

Computer Science and Engineering, Santa Clara University (scu.edu)

2024 – Present

Postdoc

Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (umich.edu)

2023 – 2024

PhD student

Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan (umich.edu)

2017 – 2022

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Rada Mihalcea

2017 – 2022

Expertise

multimodal

LLMs

2023 – Present

multimodal action detection and localization

computer vision

natural language processing

2017 – 2023

computer vision road detection from stereo images

2015 – 2017

Publications

Nlp for social good: A survey of challenges, opportunities, and responsible deployment
Antonia Karamolegkou, Angana Borah, Eunjung Cho, Sagnik Ray Choudhury, Martina Galletti, Rajarshi Ghosh, Pranav Gupta, Oana Ignat, Priyanka Kargupta, Neema Kotonya, Hemank Lamba, Sun-Joo Lee, Arushi Mangla, Ishani Mondal, Deniz Nazarova, Dina Pisarevskaya, Naquee Rizwan, Nazanin Sabri, Dominik Stammbach, Anna Steinberg et al. (11 additional authors not shown)
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
FIBER: Fill-in-the-Blanks as a Challenging Video Understanding Evaluation Framework
Santiago Castro, Ruoyao Wang, Pingxuan Huang, Ian Stewart, Oana Ignat, Nan Liu, Jonathan C. Stroud, Rada Mihalcea
- ACL
- Readers: Everyone
Has It All Been Solved? Open NLP Research Questions Not Solved by Large Language Models
Oana Ignat, Zhijing Jin, Artem Abzaliev, Laura Biester, Santiago Castro, Naihao Deng, Xinyi Gao, Aylin Ece Gunal, Jacky He, Ashkan Kazemi, Muhammad Khalifa, Nam Ho Koh, Andrew Lee, Siyang Liu, Do June Min, Shinka Mori, Joan Nwatu, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Siqi Shen, Zekun Wang et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- LREC-COLING 202
- Readers: Everyone
CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark
David Orlando Romero Mogrovejo, Chenyang Lyu, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Santiago Góngora, Aishik Mandal, Sukannya Purkayastha, Jesus-German Ortiz-Barajas, Emilio Villa Cueva, Jinheon Baek, Soyeong Jeong, Injy Hamed, Zheng Xin Yong, Zheng Wei Lim, Paula Mónica Silva, Jocelyn Dunstan, Mélanie Jouitteau, David LE MEUR, Joan Nwatu, Ganzorig Batnasan, Munkh-Erdene Otgonbold et al. (56 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Bridging the Digital Divide: Performance Variation across Socio-Economic Factors in Vision-Language Models
Joan Nwatu, Oana Ignat, Rada Mihalcea
- EMNLP 2023 Main
- Readers: Everyone
WhyAct: Identifying Action Reasons in Lifestyle Vlogs
Oana Ignat, Santiago Castro, Hanwen Miao, Weiji Li, Rada Mihalcea
- 2021 (modified: 16 Nov 2021)
- EMNLP (1) 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Detecting Inspiring Content on Social Media
Oana Ignat, Y.-Lan Boureau, Jane A. Yu, Alon Y. Halevy
- 2021 (modified: 16 Nov 2021)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
WhyAct: Identifying Action Reasons in Lifestyle Vlogs
Oana Ignat, Santiago Castro, Hanwen Miao, Weiji Li, Rada Mihalcea
- 2021 (modified: 16 Nov 2021)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Building a Flexible Knowledge Graph to Capture Real-World Events
Laura Burdick, Oana Ignat, Yiming Zhang, Rada Mihalcea, Mingzhe Wang, Steve Wilson, Yumou Wei, Jia Deng
- 2019 (modified: 16 Nov 2021)
- TAC 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Identifying Visible Actions in Lifestyle Vlogs
Oana Ignat, Laura Burdick, Jia Deng, Rada Mihalcea
- 2019 (modified: 16 Nov 2021)
- ACL (1) 2019
- Readers: Everyone

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