Dan Klein

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Daniel Klein
Born1976
Nationality American
Alma mater Cornell University (B.A.)
University of Oxford (MSt)
Stanford University Ph.D.
Known for
AwardsMarshall scholarship
Grace Murray Hopper Award
Sloan Research Fellowship
NSF Career Award
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Institutions University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor Christopher D. Manning

Daniel Klein (born c. 1976) is an American computer scientist and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on natural language processing and artificial intelligence.

He was educated at Mt. Lebanon High School in Mt. Lebanon Township, Pennsylvania and earned a B.A. in mathematics, computer science, and linguistics from Cornell University (1998), a MSt in linguistics by Oxford University (1999) and a Ph.D. from Stanford University (2004), under Christopher D. Manning. [1] [2] He attended Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship. [3] In addition to the Marshall scholarship, he has been awarded the ACM's Grace Murray Hopper Award, the Sloan Research Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship.

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References

  1. Klein, Dan. "Dan Klein's home page". EECS at UC Berkeley. Retrieved May 24, 2022.
  2. Manning, Christopher. "Christopher Manning and Ph.D. Students' Dissertations". The Stanford Natural Language Processing Group. Retrieved May 24, 2022.
  3. "Marshall Scholar Alumni by Year from Association of Marshall Scholars". Association of Marshall Scholars. Retrieved May 23, 2022.