Monojit Choudhury, a professor of Natural Language Processing at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi. Prior to this, he was a principal scientist at Microsoft Research India and Microsoft Turing. Prof Choudhury’s research interests lie in the intersection of Natural Language Processing, Social and Cultural aspects of Technology use, and Ethics. In particular, he has been working on multilingual and multicultural aspects of large language models (LLMs), their use in low resource languages and making LLMs more inclusive and safer. He also uses AI to explore the interaction between language usage patterns, and socio-cultural norms and values. Prof Choudhury is the Associate editor of the Communications of the ACM and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. He has 150+ publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and has won several best/outstanding paper awards in ACL conferences. Prof Choudhury takes a keen interest in popularizing linguistics and AI through puzzle solving; he is the general chair of Indian national linguistics Olympiad, the founding co-chair of Asia-Pacific linguistics Olympiad, and a founding board-member of International AI Olympiad. He holds a BTech and PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.