Research focus: Natural language processing, Computational sociolinguistics, Computational Social Science, Social media

 

Dong Nguyen is associate professor in Computer Science at Utrecht University. She is a member of the Natural Language Processing group and heads the NLP and Society Lab. She joined Utrecht University in May 2019. She is a recipient of the KNAW Early Career Award 2019. She has a PhD from the University of Twente and a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University. In 2024 she received an ERC Starting grant on data diversity for NLP.

Dong Nguyen conducts research into natural language processing, the processing and analysis of natural language with computers.

Research interests:

• Computational text analysis for exploring research questions from the social sciences 
• Measuring and explaining biases and robustness of NLP models 
• Computational sociolinguistics
• Data-centered NLP; influence of data on LLMs
   

Nguyen has appeared in the media several times with her research, including in the New York Times, Volkskrant and NRC and on Radio 538.