Parisa Kordjamshidi
Email: kordjams@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 355-8389
Room: 2140
Postal: Engineering Building 428 S. Shaw Lane, East Lansing, MI 48824.
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I am looking for highly motivated PhD candidates. If you are interested in Natural Language Processing, Combining vision and language, Grounding, and Neuro-Symbolic AI and Reasoning with Large Language Models, send me an Email with your CV. Please note, I can only respond to the candidates who are selected for zoom interview, I apologize in advance. Please see my mentoring plan.

Highlights for the year

  • On Sabbatical for academic year 25-26.
  • IVADO Visiting Scholar at Mila Institute of AI , Quebec, Jul-Oct 2025.
  • Visiting Associate Professor UCLA, Samueli Computer Science, Fall 2025.
  • Visiting Professor Bloomberg, NYU, 2026.

  • Service 2025: Senior area chair NAACL, Senior Area chair EMNLP, Senior Area chair AAAI, NAACL visa chair, COLM-reviewer, NSF, CFI, SNSF, Leibniz competition reviewer/panel. ARR action editor, TACL action editor, AIAS review committee.

  • EVENTS 2025 participation: AAAI-2025, Michigan NLP day, Midwest Speech and Language, NAACL-2025, ICLR-2025, IJCAI-2025, IVADO workshops, COLM-2025, NeSY-2025, AIAS Chen Institute Symposium, Embodied AI Symposium (MBZUAI), NeurIPS-2025.

    • About me

    Parisa Kordjamshidi is an associate professor of computer science and engineering. She joined Michigan State University on August 2019. Her main research interests are artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and Neuro-symbolic AI and Reasoning with Multimodla Large Language Models. She is directing the research lab on Heterogeneous Learning and Reasoning (HLR). She has worked on the extraction of formal semantics and structured representations from natural language, with a specific focus on spatial semantics representation. Her notable awards and grants include NSF CAREER award (2019-2024) to work on combining learning and reasoning for spatial language understanding; Office of Naval Research (ONR) grant under the Science of AI program for integration of domain knowledge into statistical learning (DominKnowS project, 2019-2023) and developing a Neuro-Symbolic framework for compositional learning and understanding multiple modalities of vision and language (2023-2027); She obtained Amazon faculty research award (2022), Fulbright scholar (2025) and was in Rising Stars at MIT EECS (2015).
    Parisa received a PhD from KU Leuven in 2013. She was a post-doc in UIUC in Cognitive Computation Group and was working for KnowEng, Big Data To Knowledge Project. Before joining MSU, she was assistant professor at Tulane university and Research Scientist at Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition during 2016-2019. She is a member of Editorial board of Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Action Editor of TACL and a member of Editorial board of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, part of the journal of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Frontiers in Big Data. She has published, served as either program committee, senior program committee or (senior) area chair in conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, COLING, IJCAI, AAAI, and ECAI and organized several international workshops at these venues. She has served as a member of organizing committees of NAACL, ECML-PKDD, EMNLP and AAAI conferences.

    Research Interests

    Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models, Neurosymbolic AI for Probabilistic Reasoning, Learning Based Programming, Probabilistic Programming based on LLMs.