Dan Roth

Dan Roth
Dan Roth, 2011
Born
Alma materHarvard University
Known forJoint Learning and Inference: ILP formulations of NLP tasks...,[3] Machine Learning for NLP, Probabilistic Reasoning
AwardsACM Fellow; IJCAI John McCarthy Award [1][2]
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Automated reasoning, Information Extraction.
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Pennsylvania
Doctoral advisorLeslie Valiant
Websitewww.cis.upenn.edu/~danroth

Dan Roth is the Eduardo D. Glandt Distinguished Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania[4] and the Chief AI Scientist at Oracle. Until June 2024 Dan was a VP/Distinguished Scientist at AWS AI. In his role at AWS Roth led over the last three years the scientific effort behind the first-generation Generative AI products from AWS, including Titan Models, Amazon Q efforts, and Bedrock, from inception until they became generally available.

Roth got his B.A summa cum laude in Mathematics from the Technion, Israel and his Ph.D in Computer Science from Harvard University in 1995.[5] He taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1998 to 2017 before moving to the University of Pennsylvania.[6]

  1. ^ "Welcome to IJCAI 2017!".
  2. ^ "Roth honored with the IJCAI John McCarthy Award".
  3. ^ Constrained Conditional Models
  4. ^ "Penn Engineering - Research Directory Profile". www.seas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2017-08-29.
  5. ^ "Dan Roth's Webpage". Archived from the original on 2016-01-08. Retrieved 2016-01-09.
  6. ^ "Dan Roth - Main Page". l2r.cs.uiuc.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-08-26. Retrieved 2017-08-29.