Category: Faculty of NLP
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Faculty: Jeffrey Flanigan
Jeffrey earned his Bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Master’s degree in theoretical physics from Caltech. With a strong mathematical background and a great passion in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, he then pursued his dream of doing research in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at Carnegie Mellon…
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Faculty: Jalal Mahmud
Jalal Mahmud brings deep natural language processing (NLP) expertise to the University of California, Santa Cruz. He’s been a research scientist at IBM since completing his Ph.D. in computer science at SUNY Stony Brook in 2008. Since 2014, he has been managing teams for IBM Watson group. He also holds an M.S. in computer science (’06)…
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Faculty: Dilek Hakkani-Tür
Dilek Hakkani-Tür is a distinguished visiting instructor at UC Santa Cruz and a senior principal scientist at Amazon Alexa AI. She brings deep Natural Language Processing expertise and practical experience to the program. Dr. Hakkani-Tür received an MS (1996) and later her PhD in computer engineering from Bilkent University (2000). She also holds a BS from…
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Faculty: Yi Zhang
Department: Computer Science and EngineeringGraduate Institution: Carnegie Mellon University Dr. Zhang’s career straddles two worlds. In the first, she’s an academic, a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. In the second, she’s an entrepreneur, a co-founder of Rul.ai, an award-winning conversation computing platform that landed a spot on…