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Michael Collins

Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Computer Science

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Michael Collins is the Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Michael received Bachelors and MPhil degrees from Cambridge University, and a PhD from University of Pennsylvania. He was then a researcher at AT&T Labs (1999-2002), and an assistant/associate professor at MIT (2003-2010), before joining Columbia University in January 2011. His research areas are natural language processing and machine learning, with a focus on problems such as statistical parsing, structured prediction problems in machine learning, and applications including machine translation, dialog systems, and speech recognition. Michael is a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and has received various awards including a Sloan fellowship, an NSF Career award, as well as best paper awards at several conferences.