My name is Robert A. Bagheri, and I am an Associate Professor of NLP, Machine Learning, and Interpretability at Utrecht University. I serve as a Board member of the EWUU AI Hub Steering Committee. Additionally, I am a Board member and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Research Committee at Utrecht Young Academy. I also contribute as a Board Member of the Centre for Unusual Collaborations (CUCo), an initiative of the Young Academies within the EWUU alliance, aims to support early and mid-career researchers to engage in unconventional interdisciplinary collaborations. Since 2021, I have been Coordinator of the Special Interest Group in Text Mining within the Focus Area Applied Data Science at Utrecht University. In 2024, together with the five NLP groups at UU, the Utrecht NLP Hub (NLP@U) was formed, a collaborative initiative supported by the Focus Areas Applied Data Science and Human-centered AI. I am currently a Co-coordinator of the Utrecht NLP Hub, driving interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation in NLP.

In the Department of Methodology, Statistics, and Data Science I am Chair of the Data Science and AI Taskforce. My group is the Natural Language and Text Processing (NLTP) lab in the department and is part of the Human Data Science lab (HDS), and a Supervisory Board member of the ASReview team. My current research interests include Explainable AI for NLP, and Evaluating Quality and Applications of Language Models and LLMs in societal challenges.

For a more detailed view of my research, you may want to take a look at my Utrecht University webpage and / or Google Scholar page.