Lucian Vlad Lita llita@cs.cmu.edu
Education		Ph.D. in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University		Dec 2006
		MS in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University		Dec 2003
		BS with Honors in Computer Science and Engineering, with a Psychology Minor from University of California Davis		1996-00
Experience		Siemens Medical Solutions - research scientist; working on applied natural language processing and machine learning to the medical domain.		Jan 2007
		Carnegie Mellon University - graduate research assistant. Advisor: Jaime Carbonell.		2001-2006
		IBM TJ Watson - Machine Translation. Advisor: Kishore Papineni.		Sum. 2005
		IBM TJ Watson - Automatic Content Extraction - maximum entropy approach to named, nominal, and pronominal entity extraction, reference resolution, as well as modeling text case restoration. Advisor: Nanda Kambhatla.		Sum. 2002
		IBM Almaden. Hierarchical text classification, clustering, and concept visualization.		Sum. 2001
		Visiting Scientist, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Planning under uncertainty and multi-agent technology. Advisor: Sebastian Thrun.		2000-01
		Intelligent memory research: Active Pages, UC Davis Computer Architecture Group. Advisor: Fred Chong.		1998-00
		Data compression analysis and implementation, metadata standards, educational software.		1997-99
Selected Publications		Lita L.V. and Carbonell J. (2007). Selecting Answering Strategies for Statistical Question Answering. Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007).		2007
		Lita L.V., Lavie A. (2006). A Framework for Learning High Accuracy Evaluation Metrics for NLP Applications.. A two year NSF Grant starting in the summer of 2006.		2006-08
		Lita L.V., Rogati M, Lavie A. (2005). BLANC: Learning Evaluation Metrics for MT. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Joint Conference (HLT-EMNLP 2005).		2005
		Lita L.V., Carbonell J. (2004). Unsupervised Question Answering Data Acquisition From Local Corpora. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2004).		2004
		Lita L.V., Carbonell J. (2004). Instance-Based Question Answering: A Data Driven Approach. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2004).		2004
		Lita L.V., Ittycheriah A., Roukos S., Kambhatla N. (2003). tRuEcasIng. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2003).		2003
		Lita L.V., Schulte, J., and Thrun, S. (2001). A System for Multi-Agent Coordination in Uncertain Environments. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2001).		2001
		A full list of publications can be found at www.cs.cmu.edu/~llita/papers.html.
Scholarships & Awards		Barry Goldwater National Scholarship Edward Frank Kraft Scholarship UC Davis Annual Fund Scholarship UC Davis Dean's List (8 times)