ALTA Online Monthly Seminar Series
About the Series
ALTA hosts an online monthly seminar series featuring
senior PhD students and postdocs from North America and
Australia talking about all things NLP. Each session pairs
one Australian speaker with one North American (or international) speaker,
giving the audience a snapshot of recent research from both sides of the
Pacific.
Motivation
Our motivation is two-fold — education and
awareness:
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Education: provide a regular venue for the Australasian
NLP community to hear about cutting-edge work from senior PhD students
and postdocs.
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Awareness: increase the exposure of NLP research and
surface it to people outside NLP and academia, including industry
practitioners working with LLMs and language data.
Time and Format
Target Audience
The seminars are intended for a mix of:
- Australian and New Zealand academics and researchers in NLP and related fields;
- Postgraduate (MSc / PhD) students working on language technology;
- Industry professionals interested in NLP and LLMs;
- Anyone curious about current research directions in language technology.
2026 Speaker Schedule
The table below lists the speaker line-up for the 2026 series. See the
May
seminar poster for an example of a fully announced session with talk
titles and bios.
| Date |
Australian Speaker |
North America / International Speaker |
| Name |
Institution |
Name |
Institution |
Thursday 7 May
9am AEST |
Anudeex Shetty |
University of Melbourne |
Yao Dou |
Georgia Tech |
Thursday 4 June
9am AEST |
Abid Ali |
Macquarie University |
Denis Peskoff |
UC Berkeley |
Thursday 2 July
9am AEST |
Devin Yucheng Hua |
UNSW |
Kaiser Sun |
Johns Hopkins University |
Thursday 6 August
9am AEST |
Bryan Chen |
University of Melbourne |
Anne Wu |
Cornell University |
Thursday 3 September
9am AEST |
Pranav Bhandari |
UWA |
Jeonghwan Kim |
University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign |
Thursday 1 October
9am AEST |
Hao Yang |
Monash University |
Tanise Ceron |
Bocconi University |
Thursday 5 November
9am AEDT |
Yidong |
The University of Sydney and CSIRO |
Massimiliano Pronesti |
IBM Research / ITU Austria |
Thursday 3 December
9am AEDT |
Yue Liu |
ANU |
Heyuan Huang |
Johns Hopkins University |
The schedule is subject to change; please check this page or the
ALTA-Announce
mailing list for the latest updates.
Seminar Contact
For questions about the seminar series, suggestions, or expressions of
interest in speaking, please contact:
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