Bio

Dan Jurafsky is Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Computer Science, and Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in Humanities at Stanford University. He is the recipient of a 2002 MacArthur Fellowship, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics, the Linguistics Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dan is the co-author with Jim Martin of the widely-used textbook "Speech and Language Processing", and co-created with Chris Manning the first massively open online course in Natural Language Processing. His trade book "The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu" was an international bestseller and a finalist for the 2015 James Beard Award. Dan received a B.A in Linguistics in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992 from the University of California at Berkeley, was a postdoc 1992-1995 at the International Computer Science Institute, and was on the faculty of the University of Colorado, Boulder until moving to Stanford in 2003. He and his students study topics in all areas of NLP, including its social implications and its applications to the cognitive and social sciences.

Fun picture from the archives: Dan in 1985 in Chinese class in Beijing (I'm in the second row from the front, second-ish from the right in the stylish 北京大学 tanktop):