Submitted by Jane Durkin on Mon, 30/11/2020 - 14:47
We are delighted to announce that Dr Guy Emerson has taken on a formal role as Executive Director for Cambridge Language Sciences working alongside the Co-Directors Prof. Ann Copestake and Prof. Brechtje Post.
Dr Emerson takes on this position as part of his Departmental Early Career Academic Fellowship in the Dept. of Computer Science & Technology.
As Executive Director Dr Emerson will lead in the development of new large-scale interdisciplinary proposals on behalf of Cambridge Language Sciences, as well as seeking philanthropic funding to extend the use of Machine Learning by humanities researchers working with language. As time permits, he will also be available as a consultant or collaborator for researchers at the University of Cambridge wishing to incorporate the use of Machine Learning in their work.
Dr Emerson’s research is primarily focused on computational semantics, and he has developed novel Machine Learning techniques to combine logical and probabilistic approaches to meaning in a linguistically-motivated way. Recognition for his research includes election to a Junior Research Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College in 2018. He has been actively involved Cambridge Language Sciences for several years and was a student representative on the Steering Committee while studying for his PhD.
I'm really excited to be starting this new role. Cambridge is home to a lot of ground-breaking research in the language sciences, and I feel honoured to be a part of that and to help develop new interdisciplinary projects.
Dr Guy Emerson
He says: "I'm really excited to be starting this new role. Cambridge is home to a lot of ground-breaking research in the language sciences, and I feel honoured to be a part of that and to help develop new interdisciplinary projects."
This appointment is part of the strategy for Cambridge Language Sciences to extend its capacity to address large-scale multi-disciplinary research challenges.
Guy can be contacted at gete2@cam.ac.uk.