Sergei Nirenburg

Position

Professor of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Office

301 Information Technology and Engineering (ITE) Building

Contact Info

University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250

phone: (410) 455-3965
email: sergei@cs.umbc.edu

Education

Ph.D., Linguistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1980
M.Sc., Computational Linguistics, Kharkov State University, Kharkov, USSR, 1974

Employment

  • 2002 – Present, Professor, UMBC, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
  • 1994 – 2002, Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
  • 1994 – 2002, Professor, Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University
  • 1991 – 1994, Senior Research Computer Scientist, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  • 1987 – 1991, Research Computer Scientist, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  • 1984 – 1985, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
  • 1982 – 1986, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
  • 1980 – 1982, Junior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Research Areas

Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge-Based Systems, Machine Translation, Ontological Semantics, Computational Linguistics. To learn more about Dr. Nirenburg’s research pursuits, read his research profile.