Tal Linzen
Associate Professor of Linguistics and Data Science
Bio: Tal Linzen is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Data Science at New York University and a Research Scientist at Google. Before moving to NYU in 2020, he was a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, and before that, a postdoctoral researcher at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He received his PhD from NYU in 2015. At NYU, he directs the Computation and Psycholinguistics (CAP) Lab, which studies the connections between machine learning and human language comprehension and acquisition, with a particular focus on understanding and mimicking humans’ ability to learn quickly and generalize effectively. As part of this enterprise, the CAP lab develops novel evaluation and analysis techniques for neural network models, drawing inspiration from linguistics and cognitive science. He has received a Google Faculty Award and a National Science Foundation CAREER award.
Research Areas:
- Natural language processing
- Language models
- Computational cognitive science
- Psycholinguistics
Awards:
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2023)