Romina Etezadi
Ph.D. Candidate / AI Researcher
University of Ottawa
Email: retezadi [at] uottawa [dot] ca | roetezadi [at] gmail [dot] com
About Me
I am Romina Etezadi, a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa, Canada. My PhD is under the supervision of Lionel Briand, and my co-advisors is Chetan Arora. I am a member of the Nanda Lab in the faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). I am interested in conducting research related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) and exploring its practical applications in industry.
Outside of work, I enjoy biking, going to the gym, reading books (check out some of my favorite reads here!).
Research Interests
- Artificial Intelligence: Natural Language Processing, Applied NLP, Agentic AI, AI explainability, Reasoning.
News
- Open to collaboration opportunities. Feel free to reach out via email.
- Happy to announce that I will be presenting my recent paper at the FSE 2026 Conference on July 7th in Montreal, Quebec, Canada!
- Excited to share that our recent paper has been published in the Q1 journal EMSE!
Publications
LLM-Driven Cost-Effective Requirements Change Impact Analysis
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Classifier or Prompt: A Case Study on Legal Requirements Traceability
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2026
[Paper]
Investigating syntactic and semantic features for distinguishing ai-generated and human-written texts
Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), 2024
[Paper]
The state of the art in open domain complex question answering: a survey
Journal of Applied Intelligence, 2023
[Paper]
Dadmatools: Natural language processing toolkit for Persian language
Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022
[Paper] [Code]
Improving Persian Relation Extraction Models by Data Augmentation
Proceedings of The Second International Workshop on NLP Solutions for Under Resourced Languages (NSURL) co-located with ICNLSP, 2021
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