Noah Smith

Third person biographical blurb

Noah Smith is Associate Professor of Language Technologies and Machine Learning in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. In fall 2015, he will join the University of Washington as Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2006 and his B.S. in Computer Science and B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Maryland in 2001. His research interests include statistical natural language processing, especially unsupervised methods, machine learning for structured data, and applications of natural language processing. His book, Linguistic Structure Prediction, covers many of these topics. He has served on the editorial board of the journals Computational Linguistics (2009–2011), Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (2011–present), and Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2012–present), and as the secretary-treasurer of SIGDAT (2012–present). His research group, Noah's ARK, is currently supported by the NSF, DARPA, IARPA, ARO, and gifts from Amazon and Google. Smith's work has been recognized with a Finmeccanica career development chair at CMU (2011–2014), an NSF CAREER award (2011–2016), a Hertz Foundation graduate fellowship (2001–2006), numerous best paper nominations and awards, and coverage by NPR, BBC, CBC, New York Times, Washington Post, and Time.

First person biographical blurb

I am Associate Professor of Language Technologies and Machine Learning in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. In fall 2015, I will join the University of Washington as Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2006 and my B.S. in Computer Science and B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Maryland in 2001. My research interests include statistical natural language processing, especially unsupervised methods, machine learning for structured data, and applications of natural language processing. My book, Linguistic Structure Prediction, covers many of these topics. I have served on the editorial board of the journals Computational Linguistics (2009–2011), Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (2011–present), and Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2012–present), and as the secretary-treasurer of SIGDAT (2012–present). My research group, Noah's ARK, is supported by the NSF, DARPA, IARPA, ARO, and gifts from Amazon and Google. My work has been recognized with a Finmeccanica career development chair at CMU (2011–2014), an NSF CAREER award (2011–2016), a Hertz Foundation graduate fellowship (2001–2006), and numerous best paper nominations and awards, and coverage by NPR, BBC, CBC, New York Times, Washington Post, and Time.