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Bio

Fernando Pereira is research director at Google. His previous appointments 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. He received a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, he has over 100 research publications on computational linguistics, machine learning, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and logic programming, and several patents.  He was elected Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence in 1991 for his contributions to computational linguistics and logic programming, and he was president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 1993.

Research Interests

• Natural language processing
• Machine learning
• Bioinformatics

Recent Publications

• Gaussian Margin Machines
  K. Crammer, M. Mohri, and F. Pereira
  Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics  105--112  (2009)
  http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/proceedings/papers/v5/crammer09a/crammer09a.pdf
• Exact Convex Confidence-Weighted Learning
  K. Crammer, M. Dredze, and F. Pereira
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21  345--352  (2009)
  http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~crammer/publications/paper_nips08_std.pdf
• A transcription factor affinity-based code for mammalian transcription initiation.
  M. Megraw, F. Pereira, S. Jensen, U. Ohler, and A. Hatzigeorgiou
  Genome Res  19 644--56  (2009)
  http://genome.cshlp.org/content/19/4/644
• Reranking candidate gene models with cross-species comparison for improved gene prediction.
  Q. Liu, K. Crammer, F. C. Pereira, and D. S. Roos
  BMC Bioinformatics  9 433  (2008 Oct 14)
  http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2105-9-433.pdf