Michael Collins

Michael Collins
Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University.

Office: Room 723, Schapiro CESPR
Email: mcollins [at] cs.columbia.[first 3 letters in "education"]

Mailing Address:
Columbia University
Department of Computer Science
1214 Amsterdam Avenue
M/C 0401
450 CS Building
New York, NY 10027

Affiliations: Columbia University, Google NYC.
Current teaching (Spring 2020): COMS W4705, Natural Language Processing.
Previous semester's teaching (Fall 2018): COMS W4705, Natural Language Processing, (Spring 2019): COMS W4705, Natural Language Processing.
Online teaching: In Spring 2013 I taught an online course on Natural Language Processing on Coursera. Notes for the Coursera class are posted here.
Publications (for an up-to-date list see my profile on Google scholar).
Bio: My research interests are in natural language processing, and machine learning. I completed a PhD in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in December 1998. From January 1999 to November 2002 I was a researcher at AT&T Labs-Research, and from January 2003 until December 2010 I was an assistant/associate professor at MIT. I joined Columbia University in January 2011. I am also a research scientist at Google NYC.

Students and Postdocs
Awards: NSF career award, Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship, ACL fellow, faculty finalist for the 2012 Blavatnik award. Best paper awards at EMNLP 2002, EMNLP 2004, UAI 2004, UAI 2005, CoNLL 2008, EMNLP 2010. Test of time award at NAACL 2018.
I've been trying to make an effort to write up fairly comprehensive notes for topics I teach in statistical NLP. Most recently:
- Feedforward neural networks
- Computational graphs, and backpropagation
And also:
Previous teaching:
- Fall 2012: COMS W4705, Natural Language Processing.
- Spring 2012: COMS E6998, Machine learning for natural language processing
- Fall 2011: COMS W4705, Natural Language Processing.
- Spring 2011: COMS E6998-3, Machine learning for natural language processing
Software and Data Sets (including source code for my PhD thesis parser).
Past Teaching