Adam Poliak

Adam Poliak serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Bryn Mawr College, with prior affiliation as a Roman Family Teaching and Research Fellow at Barnard College. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University under Benjamin Van Durme at the Center for Language and Speech Processing.

His research program centers on natural language processing (NLP) with dual emphases: investigating reasoning capabilities and inherent biases in language models, and applying NLP methodologies to extract insights from textual data in public health and social sciences. He maintains broad expertise in data science and machine learning solutions for language-centric problems across interdisciplinary domains.

His professional recognition includes:

• Roman Family Teaching and Research Fellowship at Barnard College

Dr. Poliak actively mentors Bryn Mawr and Haverford undergraduates through capstone projects and senior theses (requiring Fall semester initiation), while providing NLP and data science consulting services to external organizations. His research laboratory pursues ongoing projects in language technology as documented in shared project repositories.