NSF Interdisciplinary Workshop on Statistical NLP and Software Engineering – Session 3

  • Premkumar Devanbu, Chris Quirk, and Charles Sutton | UC Davis, Microsoft, University of Edinburgh

9:00am – 9:30am Opening Session and Introduction 9:30am – 10:15am Software tools and processes

Speaker Details

Prem Devanbu received his B.Tech from IIT Madras and PhD from Rutgers University. After spending nearly 20 years in New Jersey at Bell Labs and its various offshoots, he joined the CS faculty at UC Davis in late 1997. Prem has worked in the past in Databases, AI, software tools, middleware, information security, bibliometrics and a few other topics. His research interests now are squarely in empirical software engineering, although he also tends to get excited about a few other things, including end-user regression testing, and e-democracy.

Charles Sutton is a Reader (equivalent to Associate Professor) at the University of Edinburgh. He is interested in a broad range of applications of probabilistic machine learning, including natural language processing, analysis of computer systems, software engineering, sustainable energy, and exploratory data analysis.

Dr Sutton completed his PhD in 2008 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and did postdoctoral research at the University of California Berkeley. He is Deputy Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Science at the University of Edinburgh.

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