User:Tomek Strzalkowski

Prof. Tomek Strzalkowski is Director of the Institute for Informatics, Logics, and Security Studies (www.ils.albany.edu) and Professor of Computer Science at SUNY Albany. Prior to joining SUNY, he was a Natural Language Group Leader and Principal Scientist at GE R&D, and before that a faculty at the Courant Institute of New York University. He has done research in computational linguistics and sociolinguistics, information retrieval, question-answering, human-computer dialogue, serious games, social media analytics, formal semantics, and reversible grammars. He has directed research sponsored by IARPA, DARPA, ARL, AFRL, NSF, the European Commission, NSERC, as well as a number of industry-funded projects. He was involved in IBM’s Jeopardy! Challenge in advanced question answering. Dr. Strzalkowski has published over a hundred and fifty scientific papers, and is the editor of several books, including Advances in Open Domain Question Answering. He serves on the Editorial Board of the journal of Natural Language Engineering.