Sergei Nirenburg

Dr. Sergei Nirenburg is Professor in the CSEE Department AT UMBC and the Director of its Institute for Language and Information Technologies. Before coming to UMBC, Dr. Nirenburg was Director of the Computing Research Laboratory and Professor of Computer Science at New Mexico State University. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and his M.Sc. in Computational Linguistics from Kharkov State University, USSR. Dr. Nirenburg has written or edited seven books and has published over 130 articles in various areas of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence. Dr. Nirenburg has directed a number of large-scale research and development projects in the areas of natural language processing, knowledge representation, reasoning, knowledge acquisition and cognitive modeling.