Sergei Nirenburg Professor - Computer Science & Electrical Engineering University of Maryland Baltimore County ECS 202H 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