Valia Kordoni joined the faculty of the Department of English and American Studies of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany) in November 2012. Her research interests include Machine Translation, Deep Learning, and Computational Semantics. She is the author of many refereed journal and conference publications and she has served as guest editor of many scientific journals. She was the Local Chair of ACL 2016 - The 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. She has been the coordinator of many national-, EU- and industry-funded projects in Language Technology. Currently, she is the coordinator of "TraMOOC: Translation for Massive Open Online Courses" (http://tramooc.eu), which is a Horizon 2020 collaborative project aiming at providing reliable Machine Translation for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The main result of the project is an online translation platform, which utilises a wide set of linguistic infra-structure tools and resources in order to provide accurate and coherent translation to its end users.
