Fernando C. Pereira
Bio
I am an Engineering Fellow at Google, focusing on the creation and application of language AI. My previous positions include chair of the Computer and Information Science department of the University of Pennsylvania, head of the Machine Learning and Information Retrieval department at AT&T Labs, and research and management positions at SRI International. I have a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh (1982), and over 120 research publications on computational linguistics, machine learning, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and logic programming, as well as several patents. I am a Fellow of AAAI, ACM, and ACL; a member of the American Philosophical Society, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the National Academy of Engineering; and past president of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Research Interests
Natural language processing
Machine learning
Bioinformatics
I'm also broadly interested in linguistics, cognitive science, biology, and programming languages, and I've published in or around some of those areas.
Other Interests
Skiing
Digital audio
Biology
Geology