Ralf Brown

Ralf Brown is a Principal Systems Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, affiliated with the Language Technologies Institute (LTI). His research focuses on machine translation, language identification, and digital forensics, with notable contributions like the open-source CMU-EBMT system and the LTI LangID Corpus for 2000+ languages.

• Academic Roles: Research faculty since 1993, teaching courses like Coding & Algorithms Bootcamp and MIIS Capstone Project.
• Research Interests: Multilingual processing, example-based translation, low-resource languages, and text mining.

Scientific Contributions: Authored 15+ publications on EBMT, corpus indexing, and context-sensitive translation. Developed tools for digital forensics (corrupted ZIP recovery) and language identification at scale.

• Awards:
  • IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award
  • Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence
• Open-Source Contributions:
  • Key developer of darktable image editor
  • Maintainer of the Interrupt List and other technical resources