More than 50% of Americans will be diagnosed with a mental illness at some point in their lifetimes, and one in five will experience mental health challenges, such as anxiety and depression, in any given year. Left untreated, mental illness results in everything from lost productivity and bad relationships to substance use disorders and suicide. […]
Sabrina Mielke, a first-generation college graduate who immigrated from Germany to the United States, says she first discovered her interest in computer science in middle school during a trip to her local library. “It was a magical place where you could browse the internet using ‘Google’ to research anything,” said Mielke. To learn more about […]
A paper by Center for Language and Speech Processing assistant research scientist Piotr Żelasko was featured in the September edition of an Association for Computational Linguistics’ newsletter that shares recent developments in computational typology and multilingual natural language processing. “The paper’s inclusion says that the contribution is interesting to the broader community of speech and […]
The Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) enjoyed a boost to its ranks recently with the additions of two Bloomberg Distinguished Professors: Alan Yuille, who holds joint primary appointments with the departments of Computer Science, and Cognitive Science, and Rama Chellappa, who holds joint primary appointments with the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, […]
A paper co-written by Shijie Wu, a PhD candidate in the Center for Language and Speech Processing, and Department of Computer Science professor Mark Dredze, recently received the Best Long Paper Award at the Workshop on Representation Learning for Natural Language Processing, which took place virtually on July 9. Wu referred to winning the award […]
Najim Dehak, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recently received the Whiting School of Engineering’s (WSE) William H. Huggins Excellence in Teaching Award. The award is given in recognition of outstanding teaching in WSE at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and a demonstrated dedication to students. Faculty, teaching assistants, […]
Raman Arora, CLSP member and assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Early CAREER Award, which recognizes early stage scholars with high levels of promise and excellence. Raman’s five-year CAREER award will support his project, “Understanding Inductive Biases in Modern Machine Learning,” which will focus on developing […]
