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Teaching


Courses

Spring 2020
696DS
Industry Mentorship Practicum
Fall 2019
692A
Automated Knowledge Base Construction
Spring 2019
696DS
Industry Mentorship Independent Study
Spring 2018
696DS
Industry Mentorship Independent Study
Spring 2011
691GM
Graphical Models
Fall 2008
391
Our Networked World (co-taught with David Jensen)
Fall 2007 585 Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Fall 2006 121 "Introduction to Problem Solving with Computers" using Java
Spring 2006 591N Computational Linguistics
Spring 2005 121 "Introduction to Problem Solving with Computers" using Java
Fall 2004 585 Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Spring 2004 585 Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Fall 2003 791 Computational Social Network Analysis
Spring 2003 791 Statistical Information Extraction
(teaching evaluations)
Fall 2000 CMU
11-747

Machine Learning for Text Mining

Quotes

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
- Aristotle.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less.
- Lee Iacocca

So I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach.
- Richard Feynman, 1986

If we expect students to be winners and expect them to do well, they will rise to the occasion.
- Jaime Escalante

Teach to the problems, not to the text.
- E. Kim Nebeuts

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectation.
- Unknown