Scholar
Kathleen McKeown
Google Scholar ID: ujDhg2sAAAAJ
Professor of Computer Science and Director, Data Science Institute, Columbia University
Citations & Impact
Citations
10,838
H-index
51
i10-index
159
Publications
20
Co-authors
52
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985, the NSF Faculty Award for Women in 1991, was selected as an AAAI Fellow in 1994, an ACM Fellow in 2003, and one of the Founding Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2012. In 2010, received the Anita Borg Women of Vision Award in Innovation for work on text summarization. Has served in leadership roles in multiple academic organizations, including President, Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and as a board member of the Computing Research Association and secretary of the board.
Research Experience
- Current research focuses on three main areas: text summarization (including extractive and abstractive summarization over informal narratives), generating messages about electricity usage using reinforcement learning to change behavior, and analyzing social media (including detecting aggression and loss in posts by gang-involved youth and sentiment in low-resource languages like Uyghur). Served as Vice Dean for Research for the School of Engineering and Applied Science for two years.
Education
- Received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982 and has been at Columbia since then.
Background
- Research interests include natural language processing, summarization, natural language generation, and analysis of social media. Currently, the Founding Director of Columbia's Data Science Institute.
Miscellany
- Personal interests include sailing, with videos of sailing through the Cape Cod Canal in heavy wind and waves.
