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		Ivan Titov ⋅ Иван Титов Senior Researcher (W2) Head of the Research Group Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing MMCI Cluster of Excellence Saarland University, Germany
		Office:	Building C 7.4, Room 3.19, Saarland University, Saarbrücken
		Postal address:	MMCI Cluster of Excellence, Saarland University Postfach 151150 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany
		E-mail:	titov (at) mmci.uni-saarland.de
		Phone:	+49 681 302 70009

I am a senior researcher and a junior faculty at Saarland University, affiliated with the Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computations and Interactions (MMCI), Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics and Department of Computer Science. My research interests are in computational linguistics, natural language processing, machine learning and language technologies.

Recent professional activities: an area chair for NLP-related Machine Learning at EACL 2012, a senior PC member for IJCAI 2011, PC member / reviewer for ACL (2009-12), ICML (2008-2010), NIPS (2011), NAACL (2009-2010, 2012), EMNLP (2008-2012), ECML (2006-07,2012), JAIR and others.

News:

04/2012: Giving an invited talk at joint workshop on unsupervised and semi-supervised learning in NLP (EACL)

12/2011: Our project “Inducing Multilingual Semantic Representation” received Google research award.

Teaching

• New: SS 2012 Semi-supervised and Unsupervised learning with Applications to Natural Language Processing (with Alex Klementiev).

• WS 2011/12 Statistical Learning for Structured Prediction with Applications to Natural Language Processing.

• SS 2011 Semi-supervised and Unsupervised learning with Applications to Natural Language Processing.

• WS 2010/11 Statistical Learning for Structured Prediction with Applications to Natural Language Processing.

• SS 2010 Unsupervised and Weakly-Supervised Probabilistic Modeling of Text.

• Machine Learning in NLP (Spring 2009) (at University of Illinois at UC, with Dan Roth).

Previous Affiliations / Education

• Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Feb 2008 - Sep 2009 (working with Dan Roth)
  
  
• Ph.D. student (Research and Teachning Assistant) at University of Geneva, Nov 2003 - Jan 2008 (advised by James Henderson)
  
  
• Research Intern at Google (New York), Jul - Sep 2007 (with Ryan McDonald)
  
  
• Visiting Student at University of Edinburgh, Sep - Oct 2006
  
  
• MSc student in Applied Mathematics, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia, 2001 - 2003 (advised by Nikolai Vassiliev)
  
  
• BSc student in Applied Mathematics, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia, 1997 - 2001