Dr. Mohit Bansal is the John R. & Louise S. Parker Professor and the Director of the MURGe-Lab (UNC-NLP Group) in the Computer Science department at University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill. Prior to this, he was a research assistant professor (3-year endowed position) at TTI-Chicago. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2013 (where he was advised by Dan Klein) and his BTech from IIT Kanpur in 2008. His research expertise is in natural language processing and multimodal machine learning, with a particular focus on grounded and embodied semantics, human-like language generation and Q&A/dialogue, and interpretable and generalizable deep learning. He is a recipient of the 2020 IJCAI Early CAREER Spotlight, 2019 DARPA Director's Fellowship, 2019 NSF CAREER Award, 2019 Google Focused Research Award, 2019 Microsoft Investigator Fellowship, 2018 ARO Young Investigator Award (YIP), 2017 DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA), and several outstanding paper awards at ACL, CVPR, EACL, COLING, and CoNLL. His service includes ACL Executive Committee, ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee, Program Co-Chair for CoNLL 2019, Senior Area Chair for several conferences, ACL Americas Sponsorship Co-Chair, and Associate/Action Editor for TACL, Computational Linguistics (CL), IEEE/ACM TASLP, and CSL journals. Webpages: cs.unc.edu/~mbansal, murgelab.cs.unc.edu, https://nlp.cs.unc.edu/