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Charles Roy Davis Professor (having previously assisted and associated)
Department of Computer 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
Interested in doing research with me or other NLP faculty?
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Cornell undergraduate/MEng/MS students seeking research/project positions:
I'm tracking interest among Cornell ugrad/masters students who might want to work with me or potentially other NLP faculty now or in the future. Please visit this Google form (requires Cornell Google Workspace login) for info about my availability and to tell me about your background, preparation, and interests!
- Prospective graduate students:
I'm really sorry to not be able to respond to individual inquiries, because I'm trying to devote as much time as I can to my current Cornell students. But please don't take my lack of response as lack of interest! I've had to settle on a blanket policy of not answering any such emails — but I do try to read them all.
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Cornell-external students seeking internships/visiting positions/committee membership and people inquiring after postdocs:
I don't have any research positions available for you anywhere between spring 2024 to summer 2026 inclusive (in part due to upcoming sabbatical), and I am unable to join any external thesis committees for the foreseeable future, 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.
My policies regarding requests for letters of evaluation for tenure/promotion
(undergrads/masters/PhD students: to be clear, this section does not apply to you!)
- 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 decline requests for "third-year review"-like letters, meaning those that are for promotion but without tenure. Reason: to reserve sufficient time for letters regarding tenure cases.
- 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:
Go to my office-hours youcanbook.me page and read the instructions there carefully. (Yes, while classes are held, I do have regular office hours! But I'm using this appointment system rather than drop-in so that everyone gets individual time. I generally have at least two hours every full week of classes, so if you see little or no available time, that probably means other people booked the timeslots first. Have no fear, the instructions tell you what to do if there aren't available times.)
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 2024: CS 4701, Practicum in Artificial Intelligence [roster entry, including pre-enollment info in the link labelled "Syllabi"]
- Both fall and spring: NLP
seminar
- Selected past courses:
- Natural language processing and social interaction (CS/IS 6742) SP24, F21, F17, F15 w/ Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
- Advanced language technologies (CS6740): S23, 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), S01 (short course)
- Natural language processing (CS4740/COGST4740/CS5740/LING4474): F23, F22 w/ Marten van Schijndel)
- Machine learning and data science (CS5786) S15 w/ Karthik Sridharan)
- 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