Nafise Sadat Moosavi

Nafise Sadat Moosavi

Lecturer in NLP at the Computer Science Department of the University of Sheffield

BesmAllah

I am a Lecturer (~Assistant Professor) in Natural Language Processing at the Computer Science Department of the University of Sheffield. Before joining the University of Sheffield, I was a postdoctoral researcher working with Prof. Iryna Gurevych at the UKP Lab at the Technical University of Darmstadt. I got my PhD degree from Heidelberg University where I was supervised by Prof. Michael Strube. I have studied at Alzahra University and the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran for my BSc and MSc in computer science.

Reseach Interests

My research focuses on evaluating and improving language and foundation models, particularly their fairness and robustness, reasoning capabilities (e.g., math or cultural reasoning), accessibility, and efficiency. A central theme is developing rigorous evaluation methods and benchmarks to understand model capabilities and limitations and build more trustworthy and responsible models. My research also explores AI for Science, as well as multimodal models and linguistically and psycholinguistically informed analyses of model behaviour.

If you are a self-funded PhD student interested in working on these or related topics, please feel free to get in touch.

Academic Service

Senior Area Chair

  • EACL 2027, NAACL 2027
  • EMNLP 2026: Ethics, Bias, and Fairness
  • ACL 2026 (Outstanding Senior Area Chair Award): Ethics, Bias, and Fairness
  • EACL 2026: Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
  • ACL 2025: Ethics, Bias, and Fairness
  • COLING 2025: Language Resources and Evaluation
  • EMNLP 2024: Special Theme: Efficiency in Model Algorithms, Training, and Inference
  • EACL 2023: Ethical and Sustainable NLP
  • NAACL 2022: Discourse and Pragmatics

Area Chair

  • ACL 2024 (Efficiency), LREC-COLING 2024 (Lexicon and Semantics)
  • EMNLP 2023 (Semantics: Lexical, Sentence Level, Document Level, Textual Inference), ACL 2023 (Discourse and Pragmatics)
  • EMNLP 2022 (Efficient Methods for NLP)

Workshop Organisation

Professional Service

  • Demonstration co-chair: EACl 2026
  • Workshop co-chair: EACL 2024
  • Student volunteer co-chair: EMNLP 2026, EMNLP 2024
  • Best paper award committee: EMNLP 2023
  • Standing Reviewer for the Computational Linguistics Journal
  • Editorial Board Member for the Northern European Journal of Language Technology (NEJLT)

Invited Talks