His research has been supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Additionally, companies such as Intel, Google, Verisk, Bloomberg, and Nvidia have generously supported his work through awards and compute gifts.
Research Experience
Visiting researcher at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence during his 2022 sabbatical year; post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University's NLP group from 2013 to 2014.
Education
Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013.
Background
Research interests: natural language processing and machine learning. He is an associate professor in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah, co-leads the Utah NLP group, and is part of the Utah Center for Data Science.
Miscellany
Currently teaching: CS 6964 — Neuro-symbolic Modeling, Fall 2025.