Eric Nyberg

Eric Nyberg is a Professor in the Language Technologies Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is Director for the Master's Program in Computational Data Science (formerly known as the M.S. Program in Very Large Information Systems).

Nyberg has made significant research contributions to the fields of automatic text translation, information retrieval, and automatic question answering. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University (1992), and his BA from Boston University (1983). He has pioneered the Open Advancement of Question Answering, an architecture and methodology for accelerating collaborative research in automatic question answering.

In 2012, Nyberg received the Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence for his scientific contributions to the field of question answering and his work on the Watson project. He received the BU Computer Science Distinguished Alumna/Alumnus Award on September 27, 2013.[1][2]

References
  1. "Nyberg Receives BU Distinguished Alumnus Award".
  2. "2013 CS Distinguished Alumnus: Eric Nyberg (CAS '83)".
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