Bio

Dan Jurafsky is Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Computer Science, and Reynolds Professor in Humanities at Stanford University. He is an award-winning teacher, a MacArthur Fellow, the recipient of the Richard C. Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences from the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Linguistics Society of America. His research and teaching focus on language models and other natural language processing tools, including their applications to the cognitive and social sciences and to social good. His books include the widely-used online textbook "Speech and Language Processing" and the 2015 international bestseller and James Beard Award-nominee, "The Language of Food". Dan received a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992 from the University of California at Berkeley.

Fun picture from the archives: Dan in 1985 in Chinese class in Beijing (I'm in the second row from the front, second-ish from the right in the stylish 北京大学 tanktop):