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Raymond J. Mooney is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has been a faculty member since 1987. He is the Director of the UT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and affiliated with multiple research groups including the Machine Learning Research Group, UT Computational Linguistics Lab, and the UT Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
He holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his thesis was supervised by Gerald DeJong.
His research spans diverse areas in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing:
- Natural Language Learning
- Connecting Language and Perception
- Statistical Relational Learning
- Information Extraction
- Transfer and Active Learning
- Abductive Reasoning
- Text Mining and Clustering
- Recommender Systems
- Knowledge-Base Refinement
Recent publications highlight trends in grounded language processing, human-robot interaction, and multimodal reasoning. He has been recognized with prestigious fellowships including ACL (2014), ACM (2010), and AAAI (2005).
Scientific awards:
- Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2014)
- Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2010)
- Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (2005)
- Classic Paper Award (2019)
- Best Paper Awards (2007, 2004, 1996)
He teaches graduate courses like CS 371R: Information Retrieval and Web Search (Fall 2025) and CS 395T: Grounded Natural Language Processing (Spring 2025). His research labs include:
- UT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- Machine Learning Research Group
- UT Computational Linguistics Lab
- UT Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
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