<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b> </font></font><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Friday, March 1</font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">, 2024</span><font style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> at</font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <u style=""><font size="4" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">10:00</font></u></b><font size="4"><b style=""><u><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"> a</font></u></b><b style=""><u style=""><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">m CT</font></u><font color="#000000" style=""> </font></b></font></font></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#500050"><br></font></b></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#500050">Where: </font></b><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Talk will be given </font><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"> </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">at</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> 5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px">Virtually:</b><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px"> <i>via </i>Panopto </span>(<b><a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=d02b7149-1c98-4d17-8431-b122012bc3c4" target="_blank">livestream</a></b><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px">)</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><font face="georgia, serif"><b><font size="1"> </font></b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b> <font color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"><font color="#500050"> </font></font></font></font>Zhijing Jin, Max Planck Institute and ETH</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><hr size="3" width="100%" noshade align="center" style="color:rgb(46,116,181)"></div></div><div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Title: </b></font><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(35,35,35);text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Causal Inference for Robust, Reliable, and Responsible NLP</font></span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br><br><b>Abstract: </b></font> <span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Despite the remarkable progress in large language models (LLMs), it is well-known that natural language processing (NLP) models tend to fit for spurious correlations, which can lead to unstable behavior under domain shifts or adversarial attacks. In my research, I develop a causal framework for robust and fair NLP, which investigates the alignment of the causality of human decision-making and model decision-making mechanisms. Under this framework, I develop a suite of stress tests for NLP models across various tasks, such as text classification, natural language inference, and math reasoning; and I propose to enhance robustness by aligning model learning direction with the underlying data generating direction. Using this causal inference framework, I also test the validity of causal and logical reasoning in models, with implications for fighting misinformation, and also extend the impact of NLP by applying it to analyze the causality behind social phenomena important for our society, such as causal analysis of policies, and measuring gender bias in our society. Together, I develop a roadmap towards socially responsible NLP by ensuring the reliability of models, and broadcasting its impact to various social applications.</font></span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br><br><b>Bio: </b></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)">Zhijing Jin (she/her) is a Ph.D. at </span><a href="https://ei.is.tuebingen.mpg.de/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(43,43,43);box-sizing:border-box">Max Planck Institute</a><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"> & </span><a href="https://ethz.ch/en.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(43,43,43);box-sizing:border-box">ETH</a><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)">. Her research focuses on socially responsible NLP by causal inference. Specifically, she works on expanding the impact of NLP by promoting </span><a href="http://bit.ly/nlp4sg-initiative" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(43,43,43);box-sizing:border-box">NLP for social good</a><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)">, and developing </span><a href="https://github.com/zhijing-jin/Causality4NLP_papers" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(43,43,43);box-sizing:border-box">CausalNLP</a><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"> to improve robustness, fairness, and interpretability of NLP models, as well as causal analysis of social problems. She has received three Rising Star awards, and two PhD Fellowships. Her work has been published at many NLP and AI venues (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI), and featured in MIT News and ACM TechNews. She co-organizes five workshops (including the </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(43,43,43);box-sizing:border-box">NLP for Positive Impact Workshop</a><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"> at EMNLP 2024, and </span><a href="https://aipsychphil.github.io/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(43,43,43);box-sizing:border-box">Moral AI Workshop</a><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"> at NeurIPS 2023), leads the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bq1ZYxXbtg&ab_channel=ZhijingJinonAIInsights" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(43,43,43);box-sizing:border-box">Tutorial on CausalNLP</a><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"> at EMNLP 2022, and served as the Publications Chair for the 1st conference on </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><a href="https://www.cclear.cc/2022" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(43,43,43);box-sizing:border-box">Causal Learning and Reasoning</a></em><a href="https://www.cclear.cc/2022" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(43,43,43);box-sizing:border-box"> (CLeaR)</a><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)">. To support diversity, she organizes the </span><a href="https://mentorship.aclweb.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(43,43,43);box-sizing:border-box">ACL Year-Round Mentorship Program</a><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)">. More information can be found on her personal website: </span><a href="http://zhijing-jin.com/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#0000ff">zhijing-jin.com</font></a></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></span></font></div></div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div><div id="m_-1282025577005441955m_-1973358356214118865m_-5815637555669013367m_1779572315514282115m_-4485402625451270420m_1520697528942856564m_5948359943660736735m_-4789039193346764527m_3599676094611771654m_8264976978369198918m_7474850050874458051m_5107577024390010371m_253820422674989860m_3983419646637522536m_-7220900540036838011gmail-:qg" role="button" aria-label="Show trimmed content" aria-expanded="false"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Host: </b><a href="mailto:mcallester@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><b>David McAllester</b></a></font></div></div><div id="m_-1282025577005441955m_-1973358356214118865m_-5815637555669013367m_1779572315514282115m_-4485402625451270420m_1520697528942856564m_5948359943660736735m_-4789039193346764527m_3599676094611771654m_8264976978369198918m_7474850050874458051m_5107577024390010371m_253820422674989860m_3983419646637522536m_-7220900540036838011gmail-:qg" role="button" aria-label="Show trimmed content" aria-expanded="false"><br></div><div id="m_-1282025577005441955m_-1973358356214118865m_-5815637555669013367m_1779572315514282115m_-4485402625451270420m_1520697528942856564m_5948359943660736735m_-4789039193346764527m_3599676094611771654m_8264976978369198918m_7474850050874458051m_5107577024390010371m_253820422674989860m_3983419646637522536m_-7220900540036838011gmail-:qg" role="button" aria-label="Show trimmed content" aria-expanded="false"><br></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Rm 517</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">773-834-1757</font></i></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 2:00 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small"><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b> </font></font><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Friday, March 1</font><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">, 2024</span><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> at</font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <u style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">11:00</u></b><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><u><font color="#000000"> a</font></u></b><b><u style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font color="#000000">m CT</font></u><font color="#000000"> </font></b></font></font><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#500050"><br></font></b></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#500050">Where: </font></b><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Talk will be given </font><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"> </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">at</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> 5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px">Virtually:</b><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px"> <i>via </i>Panopto </span>(<b><a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=d02b7149-1c98-4d17-8431-b122012bc3c4" target="_blank">livestream</a></b><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px">)</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font><font face="georgia, serif"><b><font size="1"> </font></b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b> <font color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"><font color="#500050"> </font></font></font></font>Zhijing Jin, Max Planck Institute and ETH</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><hr size="3" width="100%" noshade align="center" style="color:rgb(46,116,181)"></div></div><div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:small"><b>Title: </b></font><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(35,35,35);text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Causal Inference for Robust, Reliable, and Responsible NLP</font></span><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:small"><br><br><b>Abstract: </b></font>
<span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Despite the remarkable progress in large language models (LLMs), it is well-known that natural language processing (NLP) models tend to fit for spurious correlations, which can lead to unstable behavior under domain shifts or adversarial attacks. In my research, I develop a causal framework for robust and fair NLP, which investigates the alignment of the causality of human decision-making and model decision-making mechanisms. Under this framework, I develop a suite of stress tests for NLP models across various tasks, such as text classification, natural language inference, and math reasoning; and I propose to enhance robustness by aligning model learning direction with the underlying data generating direction. Using this causal inference framework, I also test the validity of causal and logical reasoning in models, with implications for fighting misinformation, and also extend the impact of NLP by applying it to analyze the causality behind social phenomena important for our society, such as causal analysis of policies, and measuring gender bias in our society. Together, I develop a roadmap towards socially responsible NLP by ensuring the reliability of models, and broadcasting its impact to various social applications.</font></span><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:small"><br><br><b>Bio: </b></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)">Zhijing Jin (she/her) is a Ph.D. at </span><a href="https://ei.is.tuebingen.mpg.de/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(43,43,43)" target="_blank">Max Planck Institute</a><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"> & </span><a href="https://ethz.ch/en.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(43,43,43)" target="_blank">ETH</a><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)">. Her research focuses on socially responsible NLP by causal inference. Specifically, she works on expanding the impact of NLP by promoting </span><a href="http://bit.ly/nlp4sg-initiative" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(43,43,43)" target="_blank">NLP for social good</a><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)">, and developing </span><a href="https://github.com/zhijing-jin/Causality4NLP_papers" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(43,43,43)" target="_blank">CausalNLP</a><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"> to improve robustness, fairness, and interpretability of NLP models, as well as causal analysis of social problems. She has received three Rising Star awards, and two PhD Fellowships. Her work has been published at many NLP and AI venues (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI), and featured in MIT News and ACM TechNews. She co-organizes five workshops (including the </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(43,43,43)" target="_blank">NLP for Positive Impact Workshop</a><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"> at EMNLP 2024, and </span><a href="https://aipsychphil.github.io/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(43,43,43)" target="_blank">Moral AI Workshop</a><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"> at NeurIPS 2023), leads the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bq1ZYxXbtg&ab_channel=ZhijingJinonAIInsights" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(43,43,43)" target="_blank">Tutorial on CausalNLP</a><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"> at EMNLP 2022, and served as the Publications Chair for the 1st conference on </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><a href="https://www.cclear.cc/2022" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(43,43,43)" target="_blank">Causal Learning and Reasoning</a></em><a href="https://www.cclear.cc/2022" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(43,43,43)" target="_blank"> (CLeaR)</a><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)">. To support diversity, she organizes the </span><a href="https://mentorship.aclweb.org/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(43,43,43)" target="_blank">ACL Year-Round Mentorship Program</a><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)">. More information can be found on her personal website: </span><a href="http://zhijing-jin.com/" style="box-sizing:border-box" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">zhijing-jin.com</font></a></font><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></span></font></div></div></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div style="font-size:small"><div id="m_-1282025577005441955m_-1973358356214118865m_-5815637555669013367m_1779572315514282115m_-4485402625451270420m_1520697528942856564m_5948359943660736735m_-4789039193346764527m_3599676094611771654m_8264976978369198918m_7474850050874458051m_5107577024390010371m_253820422674989860m_3983419646637522536m_-7220900540036838011gmail-:qg" role="button" aria-label="Show trimmed content" aria-expanded="false"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Host: </b><a href="mailto:mcallester@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><b>David McAllester</b></a></font></div></div><div id="m_-1282025577005441955m_-1973358356214118865m_-5815637555669013367m_1779572315514282115m_-4485402625451270420m_1520697528942856564m_5948359943660736735m_-4789039193346764527m_3599676094611771654m_8264976978369198918m_7474850050874458051m_5107577024390010371m_253820422674989860m_3983419646637522536m_-7220900540036838011gmail-:qg" role="button" aria-label="Show trimmed content" aria-expanded="false" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div id="m_-1282025577005441955m_-1973358356214118865m_-5815637555669013367m_1779572315514282115m_-4485402625451270420m_1520697528942856564m_5948359943660736735m_-4789039193346764527m_3599676094611771654m_8264976978369198918m_7474850050874458051m_5107577024390010371m_253820422674989860m_3983419646637522536m_-7220900540036838011gmail-:qg" role="button" aria-label="Show trimmed content" aria-expanded="false" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div id="m_-1282025577005441955m_-1973358356214118865m_-5815637555669013367m_1779572315514282115m_-4485402625451270420m_1520697528942856564m_5948359943660736735m_-4789039193346764527m_3599676094611771654m_8264976978369198918m_7474850050874458051m_5107577024390010371m_253820422674989860m_3983419646637522536m_-7220900540036838011gmail-:qg" role="button" aria-label="Show trimmed content" aria-expanded="false" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div id="m_-1282025577005441955m_-1973358356214118865m_-5815637555669013367m_1779572315514282115m_-4485402625451270420m_1520697528942856564m_5948359943660736735m_-4789039193346764527m_3599676094611771654m_8264976978369198918m_7474850050874458051m_5107577024390010371m_253820422674989860m_3983419646637522536m_-7220900540036838011gmail-:qg" role="button" aria-label="Show trimmed content" aria-expanded="false" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Rm 517</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">773-834-1757</font></i></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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