Natalie Parde is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Co-Director of the UIC Natural Language Processing Laboratory. Her research interests are primarily in natural language processing, with emphases in healthcare applications, multimodality, and creative language. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, along with other funding programs. Among other research service, Natalie serves on the program committees of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and the North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL), and has been a co-guest editor for the Computer Speech and Language journal.