PhD in Computer Science, Columbia University; postdoctoral studies, Cornell University. Delta Electronics Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Member, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests are in natural language processing. Recipient of various awards, including: NSF Career Award; MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award; Microsoft Faculty Fellowship; multiple best paper awards in top artificial intelligence conferences; 2017 MacArthur Fellow; Fellow, American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI); Fellow, American Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL).