NSF Interdisciplinary Workshop on Statistical NLP and Software Engineering – Session 7

Speaker Details

Raymond J. Mooney is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. He is an author of over 150 published research papers, primarily in the areas of machine learning and natural language processing. He was the President of the International Machine Learning Society from 2008–2011, program co-chair for AAAI 2006, general chair for HLT-EMNLP 2005, and co-chair for ICML 1990. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the recipient of best paper awards from AAAI-96, KDD-04, ICML-05 and ACL-07.

Yoav Artzi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science & Engineering department at the University of Washington, Seattle. His research interests are in the intersection of natural language processing and machine learning. In particular, he focuses on designing latent variable learning algorithms that recover rich representations of linguistic meaning for situated natural language understanding. He completed a B.Sc. summa cum laude in Computer Science in Tel Aviv University, and is a recipient of the 2014 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship and the 2012 Yahoo Key Scientific Challenge award.

Percy Liang is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University (B.S. from MIT, 2004; Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, 2011). His research focuses on methods for learning richly-structured statistical models from limited supervision, most recently in the context of semantic parsing in natural language processing. He won a best student paper at the International Conference on Machine Learning in 2008, received the NSF, GAANN, and NDSEG fellowships, and is also a 2010 Siebel Scholar.

Yi Wei is a post-doc at Microsoft Research Cambridge where he performs research on improving productivity for Visual Studio and PowerPoint users. He received PhD from ETH Zurich in the field of software engineering in 2012. He has experiences in software architecture, testing, automated program correction and synthesis. Before ETH, he was a software engineering at Eiffel Software.

Date:
Speakers:
Andrian Marcus, Raymond J. Mooney, Chris Quirk, Gagan Bansal, Yoav Artzi, Percy Liang, Srini Iyer, Nate Kushman, and Yi Wei
Affiliation:
UT Dallas, Microsoft, UW, Stanford
    • Portrait of Gagan Bansal

      Gagan Bansal

      Senior Researcher

    • Portrait of Jeff Running

      Jeff Running

    • Portrait of Yi Wei

      Yi Wei

      Research SDE