Dan Roth

VP/DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST, AWS AI AND THE EDUARDO D. GLANDT DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR, CIS, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Speaker Bio:

Dan is the Eduardo D. Glandt Distinguished Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests focus on the computational foundations of intelligent behavior. Until May 2017 he was a Founder Professor of Engineering at the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with positions at the Beckman Institute, the Statistics, Linguistics and ECE Departments and at the graduate School of Library and Information Science. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), for his contributions to Machine Learning and to Natural Language Processing. In 2017 Dan was awarded the John McCarthy Award, the highest award the AI community gives to mid-career AI researchers.

Most recently, his work has focused on the development of constrained conditional models for joint learning and global inference in natural language. He is also a co-founder and the chief scientist of NexLP, Inc., a startup that leverages the latest advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Cognitive Analytics, and Machine Learning in the legal and compliance domains. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Harvard University in 1995.