András Kornai#
| Membership Number: | 5032 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | http://kornai.com |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6078-6840 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/andras-kornai-0225b/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 Senior Scientific Advisor, HAS Computer Science Research Institute
- 2014 Full Professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Honorary Professor 2003-2013)
- 2013 - 2017 Research Associate, Boston University Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering
- 2009 - 2012 Senior Research Associate, Boston University Computer Science Department
- 2009 - 2010 Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
- 2002 - 2009 Chief Scientist, MetaCarta Inc.
- 2000 - 2002 Chief Scientist, Northern Light Technology/divine Inc.
- 1999 - 2000 Principal Scientist, Belmont Research
- 1997 - 1998 Senior Scientist, BBN Technologies
- 1993 - 1997 Member of Research Staff, IBM Research Division
Fields of Scholarship
- Information retrieval
- Speech recognition
- Statistical data analysis
- Information extraction
- Machine learning
- Mathematical linguistics
- Computational linguistics
- Optical character recognition
- Natural language processing
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Festschrift
- 2013 President, Mathematics of Language Special Interest Group (SIGMOL), Association for Computational Linguistics
- 2009 Distinguished Scientist Award, Association for Computing Machinery
- 2007 Habilitated in applied mathematics
- 2003 Honorary professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- 2003 Area editor, mathematical linguistics, Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
- 2001 Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
