BIO

Zhou (Jo) Yu is an Associate Professor at Columbia University Computer Science Department. Zhou is the CEO of Articulate AI Inc, a startup that supercharges the workforce with Generative and conversational AI. Her research interest includes dialog systems, language understanding and generation, vision and language, human-computer interaction, and social robots. Dr. Yu has built various dialog systems with major practical impacts, their chatbots have reached ten million Amazon Alexa users. Dr. Yu’s work earned a 2019 ACL best paper award nomination. She was recognized in the Forbes 2018 30 under 30 in Science and won the 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize.