User:Dirkh1981

Dirk Hovy is associate professor at Bocconi University in Milan, and holds a position at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on computational sociolinguistics, the interaction of NLP, demographic factors, and language, and its consequences for performance, fairness, and personalization of statistical models. He is also interested in ethical questions of bias and algorithmic fairness in ML in general.

Dirk holds a PhD in NLP from the University of Southern California, and a Magister in sociolinguistics from the University of Marburg, Germany.

Outside of research, Dirk enjoys cooking, running, and leather-crafting, as well as picking up heavy things and putting them back down. You can find an updated CV, links to the papers, and more at www.dirkhovy.com