Lillian Lee

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

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.

Research

I don't have any research positions available for non-Cornell students or current Cornell M.Eng's from Jan 2019-May 2020 inclusive, nor for current Cornell undergrads during January-August 2019 inclusive. I am sorry, and I realize that this situation means that I am missing out on the opportunity to work with some fantastic people.

• Research summary
• Groups: my students :: NLP :: machine learning :: AI
• Papers: includes links to associated talk slides, data, etc.
• Data
• Other talk slides

Professional recognition and activities

• Awards, press, offices, editorial boards, outreach, etc.
• This year's conference reviewing: I am declining all reviewing invitations, due to TACL co-Editor-in-Chief duties.

Courses

• Fall 2018-Spring 2019: on sabbatical
• Both fall and spring: NLP seminar, AI seminar
  
  
• Selected past courses:
  • Natural language processing and social interaction (CS/IS 6742 F17, F15 w/ Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil)
    
  • Advanced language technologies (CS6740): 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, models first, then methods).
    
  • Machine learning and data science w/ Karthik Sridharan (CS5786, S15)
    
  
  
  • Introduction to computing using Python, (CS1110, 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)

Contact and availability info

Office hours: none during the summer or sabbatical year 2018-2019

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: Jenna Edwards, see the CUCS staff page for contact info.

Other stuff

• News flash: female computer-science professor good with computers
• Saw the Scotch tape, forewent the Nobel Prize
• It's Not Easy Being Green; or: You Can Have Both Great Stage Presence and Great Stage Fright, And Your Own Rosemary's Baby, To Boot



• Some highlights regarding Cornell and/or the Cornell computer science department
• Advice other people have told me is useful (I don't necessarily agree with everything said): SUNY Oswego Honors program: How to do really well in college;   CRA site on research opportunities and grad school
  
  
• I'm not from Iowa.
• Nor am I the bread and the knife.
• Or Michiko Kakutani.
• No Pinot Grigio for me, buddy.