Scholar
Noah A. Smith
Google Scholar ID: TjdFs3EAAAAJ
University of Washington; Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Citations & Impact
Citations
49,268
H-index
99
i10-index
306
Publications
20
Co-authors
175
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Elected a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2020); UW's Sounding Board team won the inaugural Amazon Alexa Prize (2017); Received UW Innovation award (2016-2018), NSF CAREER award (2011-2016), and multiple best or outstanding paper awards.
Research Experience
- Amazon Professor of Machine Learning in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington; Senior Director of NLP Research at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence; Previously, Associate Professor of Language Technologies and Machine Learning in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University; B.S. in Computer Science and B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Maryland.
Background
- Research interests include algorithms that process data encoding language, music, and more, to augment human capabilities. Also works on core problems of research methodology like evaluation.
Miscellany
- Wrote a general-audience tutorial titled 'Language Models: A Guide for the Perplexed'; Co-directs the OLMo open language modeling effort; Mentored 32 Ph.D. students and 18 postdocs, with 28 alumni now in faculty positions around the world.
