Contact: willm@nyu.edu

Bio: Will is a PhD student at the NYU Center for Data Science. Will’s research interests lie at the intersection of language and computation—spanning NLP, linguistics, and formal language theory. In particular, his recent work investigates the mysterious success of deep learning in NLP from a theoretical perspective. He is interested in how AI systems represent the compositional structure and meaning of language, and how we can improve current representations to enable deeper language understanding. Before coming to NYU, Will was a predoctoral researcher at the Allen Institute for AI and obtained his B.S. from Yale.

Awards:

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship