America Chambers

America Chambers is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at the University of Puget Sound, where she has taught since 2015. She holds a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from Swarthmore College (2005), an MS (2010) and PhD (2013) in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, where she was advised by Padhraic Smyth.

Her research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence, with emphasis on:

• Developing algorithms for text analysis and generation using statistical models
• Creating AI agents for interactive fiction games requiring language understanding
• Applying machine learning techniques including neural networks, reinforcement learning, and probabilistic modeling

Her publications demonstrate consistent focus on NLP applications, with recent work exploring creative text generation (poetry), fairness in classification systems, and low-resource machine translation. Earlier foundational work centered on statistical text classification and topic modeling.

At Puget Sound, she teaches core CS courses including:

• Algorithms and Data Structures
• Software Engineering
• Artificial Intelligence
• Natural Language Processing
• Senior Capstone projects