Ninth International Workshop on Symbolic-Neural Learning (SNL2025)

Keynote Talks

Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen (National Taiwan University)

"Strategizing Conversations: Reasoning for Personalized AI Agents"

Bio:
Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering at National Taiwan University. She earned her Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University, where her research interests focus on spoken dialogue systems and natural language processing. She was recognized as the World's Top 2% Scientists in her 2023 impact, the Taiwan Outstanding Young Women in Science and received Google Faculty Research Awards, Amazon AWS Machine Learning Research Awards, MOST Young Scholar Fellowship, and FAOS Young Scholar Innovation Award. Her team was selected to participate in the first Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge in 2021. Prior to joining National Taiwan University, she worked in the Deep Learning Technology Center at Microsoft Research Redmond. (http://vivianchen.idv.tw)