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Annie En-Shiun Lee

Assistant Professor

Computer Science

Faculty of Science

I am an assistant professor at Ontario Tech University and the University of Toronto (status-only). I lead the Lee Language Lab (L³), which is focused on language diversity and multilingualism.

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Contact information

Science Building - Room UA4015
North Oshawa
2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5

905.721.8668

annie.lee@ontariotechu.ca
Lee Language Lab Website

Research topics

  • Multilinguality
  • Language Diversity, and Low-Resource Languages
  • Multicultural Bias and Multimodal Applications
  • Pedagogy for Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning

Areas of expertise

  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Multilingual AI
  • Machine Learning for Language and Culture
  • Low-resource & efficient model adaptation
  • AI Ethics and Equity in Technology

Background

Annie En-Shiun Lee is an Assistant Professor at Ontario Tech University (OTU) and a Status-only Assistant Professor at University of Toronto. Her goal is to make language technology as inclusive and accessible to as many people as possible. She directs the Lee Language Lab (L³), focusing on language diversity, multilinguality, and multiculturalism, aligning with OTU’s vision for “Tech with a Conscience”. Her research has been published in Nature Digital Medicine, ACM Computing Surveys, ACL, SIGCSE, IEEE TKDE, and Bioinformatics.

Dr. Lee is the demo co-chair for NAACL 2024 and has received numerous recognitions, including Outstanding Paper Award and Best Theme Paper Award at NAACL 2025, Audience Award at Teaching NLP 2024, ARIA Spotlight Award for MScAC 2024, as well as nominations for the Tim McTiernan Student Mentorship Award 2025 and Women in AI Researcher of the Year Award 2025.

She was an Assistant Professor (teaching stream) at the University of Toronto for the Elite professional Master’s. She earned her PhD from the University of Waterloo, was a visiting researcher at the Fields Institute and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and worked as a research scientist at VerticalScope (Research lead) and Stradigi AI.

Education

  • PhD University of Waterloo 2009-2014
  • Masters of Mathematics University of Waterloo 2006-2008
  • Bachelor of Mathematics University of Waterloo 1999-2004

Courses taught

  • CSCI 2000U Scientific Data Analysis
  • CSCI 4030U Big Data Analytics
  • CSCI 4055U Natural Language Processing
  • CSCI 6720G Advanced Natural Language Processing

Awards and recognition