Daniel Klein (born 1976) is an American
computer scientist
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Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...
and professor of
computer science
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at the
University of California, Berkeley
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. His research focuses on natural language processing and artificial intelligence.
He was educated at
Mt. Lebanon High School
Mt. Lebanon High School is a four-year, comprehensive high school located in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, with an enrollment of 1,801 students in grades 9–12 for the 2020–2021 school year. Its mascot is the Blue Devil.
History
The sc ...
in
Mt. Lebanon Township,
Pennsylvania
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and earned a BA in mathematics, computer science, and linguistics by
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...
(1998), a Master of Studies (MSt) in linguistics by
Oxford University
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(1999) and a Ph.D. by
Stanford University
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(2004), under
Christopher Manning. He attended Oxford on a
Marshall Scholarship
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.
In addition to the Marshall scholarship, he has been awarded the ACM's
Grace Murray Hopper Award
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, the
Sloan Research Fellowship
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...
, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship.
References
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American computer scientists
Grace Murray Hopper Award laureates
1976 births
Living people
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Cornell University alumni
Computational linguistics researchers
Natural language processing researchers
Marshall Scholars
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