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
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.