Mark Dredze

Mark Dredze, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, has been appointed as a John C. Malone Associate Professor. The John C. Malone Associate Professorship was endowed through the generosity of John C. Malone ’64, ’69 to support outstanding Whiting School faculty members within the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare.

Mark develops new methods for clinical Natural Language Processing on medical records as well as statistical models of language with applications to social media analysis, public health, and clinical informatics. In addition to his position as a faculty member in the Malone Center, he is affiliated with the Center for Language and Speech Processing and the Applied Physics Laboratory.

The dedication and installation ceremony for his John C. Malone Associate Professorship will be held at 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 29, in Mason Hall