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Jordan Boyd-Graber

Jordan Boyd-Graber

Affiliate Professor
jbg@umiacs.umd.edu
http://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/

Dr. Jordan Boyd-Graber is an professor in the University of Maryland Computer Science Department (tenure home), Institute of Advanced Computer Studies, and Language Science Center, and affiliate professor in the University of Maryland INFO College. Previously, he was an assistant professor at Colorado’s Department of Computer Science (tenure granted in 2017).

Dr. Boyd-Graber’s research focuses on making machine learning more useful, more interpretable, and able to learn and interact from humans. This helps users sift through decades of documents; discover when individuals lie, reframe, or change the topic in a conversation; or to compete against humans in games that are based in natural language.

Education:

  • Ph.D., Princeton University, 2010
  • B.S., California Institute of Technology, 2004