Rob Gaizauskas: Brief Biography
A native of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Rob Gaizauskas
studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Toronto from
1972-74, then moved to Carleton
University in Ottawa where he received an Honours BA in Philosophy
in 1975 and an MA in Philosophy (with distinction) in 1978. Following
two years teaching Logic as a temporary lecturer at Carleton he
obtained a Diploma in Information Processing from Algonquin College, Ottawa,
in 1981. He then worked for several software companies in Ottawa,
including Domus Software, Nabu Technologies, and Fulcrum Technologies
(now part of OpenText),
before moving to the U.K. in 1985, thanks to a Canadian SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
and British Council ORS award, to study for a DPhil in the School
of Cognitive and Computing Sciences (now the Department of Informatics) at
the University of Sussex. He
received his MA in Cognitive Studies in 1986 and was awarded his DPhil
in 1992. During 1989 he lectured in Artificial
Intelligence at Sussex. From 1990 to 1993 he worked as a Research
Associate at the University of Sussex.
In 1993 he became a Lecturer in the Natural Language Processing Group
of the Department of Computer
Science at The
University of Sheffield, became a Reader in Computer Science in the same group
in 1999, and a Professor in 2002. From 2008-2019 he was Head of the NLP Research Group and in 2019
became Co-Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training
in Speech and Language Technologies and Their Applications.
A full
curriculm vitae is available.
Last modified Fri May 13 2022 by R. Gaizauskas