Usama Fayyad speaks with Kenneth Church – professor of the practice at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. Tune in to hear Kenneth discuss his history in Information Retrieval, NLP, and search technology, and hear his views on the interest surrounding ChatGPT.

Speaker’s name: Kenneth Church

Speaker Bio: Kenneth Church is professor of the practice at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. His research focuses on natural language processing and information retrieval, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Before joining Northeastern in 2022, Church worked as a scientist at Baidu, a researcher at IBM and a scientist at Johns Hopkins University. He was recognized as a Baidu Fellow in 2018, an Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Fellow in 2015 and served as president of ACL in 2012. Notable journals Church’s research has been published in includes NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, Journal of Natural Language Engineering and Frontiers Interspeech. Outside of academic research, he enjoys chess and hiking. A fun fact most people don’t know about him is his great-grandfather invented a method that is still used today to predict stream runoff from mountain ranges across the West, as well as floods and droughts.

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