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Charles Roy Davis Professor (having previously assisted and associated)
Department of Computer Science and Department of Information Science
A.B. Cornell 1993, math and computer
science; Ph.D. Harvard 1997, computer science. |
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The crudest curriculum vitae crows and flaps its wings in a style
peculiar to the undersigner.
I doubt whether you can even give your telephone
number without giving something of yourself.
–Nabokov, Nikolai Gogol |
Research, professional activities, and recognition
- Research
summary
- Groups: my students
:: NLP
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machine
learning
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AI
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Cornell undergraduates interested in an summer 2022 research position:
Unfortunately, I will not be able to offer any new research positions. (Should the situation unexpectedly change, I will post an announcement to Cornell DTI's Research Connect site.)
When applications are open again, prerequisites are: some background in machine learning, programming experience at least at the level of CS3110, and tolerance for
(and ideally, love of) the complexities of human language.
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Other students and people inquiring after postdocs: I don't have any research positions available for people who aren't current Cornell students anywhere between summer 2021 and summer 2022 inclusive, and I am unable to join any external thesis committees, due to my commitments to my current students. I am sorry, and I realize that this situation means that I am missing out on the opportunity to work with some fantastic people.
- Papers: includes links to associated talk
slides, data, etc.
- Other talk slides
- Awards, press, offices, editorial boards, outreach, etc.
Requests for letters of evaluation for tenure/promotion
- I decline requests from institutions that do not offer strong confidentiality promises, so as to feel more empowered to be candid in my letters.
- I would strongly prefer that candidates not contact me beforehand regarding my availability to write a letter, and reserve the right not to answer such queries. I understand this can put candidates in an awkward position when they are advised to make such pre-contacts by their institution, and I am sorry for that; I'm providing this public statement as protection for candidates in that case.
But I would prefer to be able to state, should/as I write such letters, that I was not contacted by the candidate or did not promise the candidate anything, so as to provide more evidence of impartiality.
Contact and availability info
Office hours:
- It's summer!
Actual coordinates: 419 Gates Hall; email address: see the Engineering faculty directory page; phone: 607-255-8119;
fax: 607-255-9143
Mailing address is Cornell University, Department
of
Computer
Science, 419 Gates Hall,
Ithaca, NY 14853
Street address is 107 Hoy Road
Administrative assistant: Lacy Jordaens, see the CUCS staff page for contact info.
Courses
- Fall 2022: Natural Language Processing (CS4740/COGST4740/CS5740/LING4474), w/ Marten van Schijndel. Pre-semester info
- Both fall and spring: NLP
seminar, AI seminar
- Selected past courses:
- Natural language processing and social interaction (CS/IS 6742 F21, F17, F15 w/ Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil)
- Advanced language technologies (CS6740): F19 (TAGs, CCGs, deconstructing datasets, semantic representations), F07 (a
generally quite strong set of
student-authored lecture guides with problems),
S10
(fancy tabbing navigation using javascript, updated references), S02 (no IR), F01 (short course)
- Machine learning and data science w/ Karthik Sridharan (CS5786, S15)
- Introduction to computing using Python (CS1110):
SP22 w/ Anne Bracy, SP21 and SP20 w/ Daisy Fan; SP18 w/ Anne Bracy; SP17 w/ Erik Andersen; SP16 w/ Charlie Van Loan; SP14 w/ Steve Marschner); Introduction to computing using Java (CS1110, F10 w/ David Gries)
- Computation, information,
and intelligence (CS 1700, aka 172, S07)
- Honors introduction to the theory of computing (CS481, F98, F99, F00)
Other stuff