Executive Director, Melbourne Connect, University of Melbourne
Eduard Hovy is the Executive Director of Melbourne Connect (a research and tech transfer centre at the University of Melbourne), a professor at the University of Melbourne’s School of Computing and Information Systems, and an adjunct professor at the Language Technologies Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. in the US In 2020–21 he served as Program Manager in DARPA’s Information Innovation Office (I2O). Dr. Hovy completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at Yale University and was awarded 2 honorary doctorates. He is one of the initial 17 Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and is also a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Dr. Hovy’s research focuses on AI, natural language processing, machine learning, and data analytics. computational semantics of language and addresses various areas in Natural Language Processing and Data Analytics.