I joined Michigan State University as an assistant professor of computer science and Engineering in August 2019. I am affiliated with IHMC as a research scientist since July 2016. My main research interests are artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and declarative learning-based programming (DeLBP). I am directing the research lab on Heterogeneous Learning and Reasoning (HLR). I have worked on the extraction of formal semantics and structured representations from natural language, with a specific focus on spatial semantics representation and structured output learning models. I obtained an NSF CAREER award in Feb 2019 to work on combining learning and reasoning for spatial language understanding. I am the leading PI of a project funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to perform basic research and develop a declarative learning-based programming framework for the integration of domain knowledge into statistical learning (DominKnowS project, 2019-2022). DeLBP facilitates programming for building systems that require a number of learning and reasoning components that interact with each other and receive data from heterogeneous resources. Such a framework/language would help machine learning researchers as well as experts in various domains who are not experts in machine learning, to design complex intelligent systems and evaluate them. I received my Ph.D. from KU Leuven in 2013. I was a post-doc in UIUC in Cognitive Computation Group and was working for KnowEng, Big Data To Knowledge Project. Before joining MSU, I was an assistant professor at Tulane University from 2016-2019. I am a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and a member of the Editorial board of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, part of the journal Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Frontiers in Big Data. I have published, served as a program committee, and organized several international workshops in conferences such as IJCAI, AAAI, ACL, NAACL COLING, and ECAI. I served as a member of the organizing committees of NAACL-2018 and ECML-PKDD-2019 conferences.