Professor Dr. Stefan Riezler

Biography

Stefan Riezler is a full professor of Statistical Natural Language Processing at Heidelberg University, Germany, since 2010, after spending a decade in industry research labs in Silicon Valley, USA, including Xerox PARC and Google Research. He received his PhD in Computational Linguistics from the University of Tübingen in 1998 and conducted post-doctoral work at Brown University in 1999. Prof. Riezler’s research focuses on the intersection of machine learning, natural language processing, and medical informatics, with a special emphasis on interactive statistical learning techniques. He is involved as an editorial board member for major journals in the field, such as Computational Linguistics and Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Additionally, he conducts interdisciplinary research and is a member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) at Heidelberg University. He has published a monograph titled 'Validity, Reliability, Significance: Empirical Methods for NLP Data Science' in the Synthesis Lectures Human Language Technologies series with Springer.

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