Innodata Inc. announced that Dr. Rada Mihalcea has joined its advisory board. Mihalcea is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan and is Director of the University's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Mihalcea is bthe second member of Innodata's advisory board, following the appointment of Microsoft's US West region Chief Data Officer Eduardo Kassner announced June 30.

Mihalcea's research at University of Michigan focuses on natural language processing, multimodal processing, and computational social science. She has received multiple awards for her work including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers bestowed by President Barack Obama in 2009. The Michigan AI Lab is widely known for its high-impact, multidisciplinary research that spans machine learning, data mining, computer vision, natural language processing, robotics, and other applications of intelligent systems.