Dragomir R. Radev obtained a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia in
1999. He has taught numerous courses in Natural Language Processing,
Databases, and Information Retrieval. He has received a number of
awards including the Columbia CS department award for graduate student
teaching, the University of Michigan UROP award for outstanding
research mentorship, the Gosnell Prize for excellence in political
methodology, and an ACM distinguished scientist award. As
undergraduate he was on a team that finished in the top 10 at the ACM
international computer programming contest and, later, has been the
coach of Columbia's team for 4 years, taking it to three international
finals. Dragomir has worked in different capacities for places like
Microsoft Research, IBM Research, MITRE, AT&T Bell Labs, and Yahoo!
Dragomir Radev is also the secretary of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the program chair and team coach
of NACLO, the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad.
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