Kenneth Church
Research Interests
- Natural language processing and information retrieval
- Artificial intelligence
- Machine learning
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MS in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- BS in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pronouns
Biography
Kenneth Church is professor of the practice at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. His research focuses on natural language processing and information retrieval, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Before joining Northeastern in 2022, Church worked as a scientist at Baidu, a researcher at IBM and a scientist at Johns Hopkins University. He was recognized as a Baidu Fellow in 2018, an Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Fellow in 2015 and served as president of ACL in 2012. Notable journals Church’s research has been published in includes NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, Journal of Natural Language Engineering and Frontiers Interspeech. Outside of academic research, he enjoys chess and hiking. A fun fact most people don’t know about him is his great-grandfather invented a method that is still used today to predict stream runoff from mountain ranges across the West, as well as floods and droughts.
Research Interests
- Natural language processing and information retrieval
- Artificial intelligence
- Machine learning
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MS in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- BS in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pronouns
Biography
Kenneth Church is professor of the practice at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. His research focuses on natural language processing and information retrieval, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Before joining Northeastern in 2022, Church worked as a scientist at Baidu, a researcher at IBM and a scientist at Johns Hopkins University. He was recognized as a Baidu Fellow in 2018, an Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Fellow in 2015 and served as president of ACL in 2012. Notable journals Church’s research has been published in includes NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, Journal of Natural Language Engineering and Frontiers Interspeech. Outside of academic research, he enjoys chess and hiking. A fun fact most people don’t know about him is his great-grandfather invented a method that is still used today to predict stream runoff from mountain ranges across the West, as well as floods and droughts.