Mehrnoush Shamsfard received the B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in computer software engineering from the Sharif University of Technology and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering-artificial intelligence from the Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Since 2004, she has been with Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, where she is currently an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering and the Head of the NLP Research Laboratory. Her main research interests include natural language processing, developing intelligent assistants and chatbots, knowledge engineering (ontologies and knowledge graphs), text mining, and semantic and intelligent web.