Percy Liang

Percy Liang

Assistant Professor - Stanford Computer Science

Natural Language Processing Group

Office: Gates 142

pliang@cs.stanford.edu

[Publications] [Code] [MLcomp] [Braque]

Fields: machine learning, natural language processing.
Topics: unsupervised learning, structured prediction, statistical learning theory, compositional semantics, program induction.
Focus: learning statistical models of natural language semantics from incomplete and noisy data.

Winter 2012-13: Statistical Learning Theory (CS229T/STATS231)
Autumn 2012-13: Artificial Intelligence (CS221)

2012: post-doc at Google New York
2011: Ph.D. from Berkeley (advisors: Michael Jordan and Dan Klein)
2005: MEng from MIT (advisor: Michael Collins)
2004: B.S. from MIT

MLcomp: objective comparison of machine learning algorithms (with Jacob Abernethy)
Braque: notifies you of new research papers (with Hal Daume)
rfig: for creating figures and presentations in Ruby
USA Computing Olympiad: programming contest for high school students

Graduate fellowships: NSF, NDSEG, GAANN, Siebel Scholar
Research: Best student paper (ICML 2008)
Programming contests: 2nd place at 2002 ACM ICPC World Finals, silver medalist at IOI 2000
Music competitions (piano): Winner of KDFC Classical Star Search (2008, over-21 division), MIT Concerto Competition (2004), Phoenix Young Musicians Competition (2000)

Last updated January 20, 2013.