Robert Frederking

Robert Frederking is an Associate Dean for PhD Programs and Chair of the Master of Language Technologies program at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute (LTI), part of the School of Computer Science (SCS). With over three decades at CMU, he holds a PhD in Computer Science, specializing in machine translation and computational linguistics.

• Education:
  • PhD in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
• Research Interests:
  • Advancing machine translation for low-resource languages
  • Developing speech-to-speech translation systems (Tongues, NineOneOne projects)
  • Building named entity recognition tools for defense applications
  • Creating translingual information retrieval frameworks
  • Designing multilingual processing architectures
• Scientific Awards:
  • Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence
• Leadership & Grants:
  • Principal Investigator for NSF KDI Universal Access project
  • Co-PI for NSF/EU Muchmore project
  • Organizer of JGC60 Celebration
  • Representative to NSF-funded LEAP Alliance
• Labs & Teams:
  • Founding member of CMU's Language Technologies Institute
  • Contributor to evolution of Center for Machine Translation into LTI
  • Key member of Dolphin Communication Project
  • Participant in AMTA leadership (2004-2008)