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Andrew McCallum is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Data Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Rochester (1995) and a BS from Dartmouth College (1989). His research focuses on machine learning, natural language processing, and information extraction, with applications to scientific literature and knowledge base construction. He has pioneered work on conditional random fields and probabilistic databases, and led the development of systems like Rexa, an advanced research paper search engine.
- Affiliations: Center for Data Science, Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, Computational Social Science Institute
- Key Projects: OpenReview.net, Unified Information Extraction, Automated Knowledge Base Construction
His work emphasizes extracting actionable knowledge from unstructured text, with contributions to social network analysis, entity resolution, and semi-supervised learning. McCallum has over 300 publications and has received awards including the NSF ITR Grant, IBM Faculty Partnership Awards, and ACM/AAAI Fellowships. He has advised numerous students and served as ICML General Chair (2012).
- Recent Research Trends: Probabilistic box embeddings, case-based reasoning for knowledge bases, scalable clustering algorithms, and applications in biomedical informatics.
