PhD opening at University of Virginia: machine learning

山姆大叔 · 发表于 2015-11-11 18:15:25

张老师是做machine learning/NLP的大牛，人也非常nice，还参与开发过很多ML/NLP的toolbox，比如 LIBLINEAR, Illinois-SL, Vowpal Wabbit, Illinois Coref System。欢迎感兴趣的同学申请，以下是具体信息：

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Kai-Wei Chang will join the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2016. He is looking for one or two self-motivated Ph.D. students with strong interest in one or more of the following research areas:
- Learning with structured input and output
- Machine reading and information extraction
- Applications of machine learning and natural language processing

Students are also encouraged to conduct research on topics of their own interest and to develop open-source ML and/or NLP tools.

Dr. Chang is broadly interested in Machine learning and Natural Language Processing. He has been constantly publishing papers in the top conferences and journals of the relevant fields, including JMLR, ICML, ECML, KDD, AAAI, and EMNLP. He has also been involved in developing open source ML/NLP packages such as LIBLINEAR, Illinois-SL, Vowpal Wabbit, and Illinois Coref System. More information about Dr. Chang can be found athttp://kwchang.net.

The University of Virginia is ranked top 3 among all public universities and 26th national-wide. Recently, the CS department has been expanding and has hired several faculty members to strengthen the AI and data science areas. U.Va is located in Charlottesville, which is one of the most beautiful college towns in the country. More information about the department can be found at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/.

To apply, please visit the Graduate Admission page at CS@UVa at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/admissions/grad/ and mention Dr. Chang in your SOP.