Lillian Lee

On sabbatical at Stanford, academic year 2025-2026.

Charles Roy Davis Professor (having previously assisted and associated) Department of Computer Science A.B. Cornell 1993, math and CS; Ph.D. Harvard 1997.

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 :: machine learning :: AI
• Papers: includes links to associated talk slides, data, etc.
• Other talk slides
   
  
• Awards, press, offices, editorial boards, outreach, etc.

Interested in doing research with me or other NLP faculty?

• Cornell undergraduate/MEng/MS students seeking research/project positions: due to sabbatical, I'm afraid I have no new positions open until at least Fall 2026.
  
  • Other resources: the ACSU's guide on how to find a research position (see the "Research" tab), the Bowers CIS page on undergrad research, ACSU's semesterly Research Night, the Psych department's internships google group (you'll need to request permission to join), CRA site on research opportunities
• Prospective graduate students:
  I'm really sorry to be unable to respond to individual inquiries. But please don't take this as lack of interest! Despite my blanket policy, I do try to read the emails I receive.
• Cornell-external people seeking internships/visiting positions/postdocs:
  No opportunities available for summer 2026.
  

Courses

• Selected past courses:
  • Natural language processing and social interaction (CS/IS 6742) S24, F21, F17, F15 w/ Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
    
  • Advanced language technologies (CS6740): S23, F19 (TAGs, CCGs, deconstructing datasets, semantic representations), F12 (w/ Claire Cardie), F07 (a generally quite strong set of student-authored lecture guides with problems), S10, S02 (no IR), S01 (short course)
    
  • Natural language processing (CS4740/COGST4740/CS5740/LING4474) F23, F22 w/ Marten van Schijndel
  • Practicum in Artificial Intelligence (CS 4701) F24
  • Machine learning and data science (CS4786/5786) S15 w/ Karthik Sridharan
    
  
  
  • Introduction to computing: A design and development perspective (CS1110): S25 w/ Michael Clarkson, S22 w/ Anne Bracy, S21 and S20 w/ Daisy Fan, S18 w/ Anne Bracy; S17 w/ Erik Andersen, S16 w/ Charlie Van Loan, S14 w/ Steve Marschner, 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

• Instead of talking about the bitter lesson, we should be talking about the bigger lesson, or the better lesson.
• 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


• I'm not from Iowa.
• Nor am I the bread and the knife.
• Or Michiko Kakutani.
• No Pinot Grigio for me, buddy.