Lyle Ungar Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania ungar@cis.upenn.edu 420C Amy Gutman Hall, 3333 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104-6309

Professor of

• Computer and Information Science
  

Faculty in the Graduate Groups of

• Bioengineering
  
• Genomics and Computational Biology (in the School of Medicine)
• Operations, Information and Decisions (in the Wharton School )
• Psychology (in the School of Arts and Sciences)
  

Research Interests

• Word use, personality and well-being: See wwbp.org
• Some previous research areas
  • Explainable AI
  • Spectral methods for modeling language
  • NLP and Word Sense Disambiguation
  • Forecasting, methods for combining predictions, group decision making, prediction markets
  • Bibliometrics: Modeling the dynamics of scientific communities
  • BioInformatics
  • Machine learning and data mining
    • Clustering and Collaborative Filtering
    • Feature Selection
    • Genomics, Proteomics, and regulatory network modeling (see also BioInformatics)
    • Statistical Relational Learning
    • Text Mining
    • Active Learning
  • Market-based methods and Applied Economics
    • Information Economics, Shopbots and Pricebots
    • Auctions and Mechanism Design

Teaching

• Machine Learning (CIS 5200)
• Deep Learning (CIS 5220)
• Advanced Topics in Deep Learning (CIS 6200)
• Conversations and Conversational Bots (CIS 7000)
• Concepts in Deep Learning (CIS 7000)
• Other courses I have taught at Penn
  • Cognitive Science (CIS 140, a.k.a Cognitive Science 001, Linguistics 105, Philosophy 044 and Psychology 107)
  • Artificial Intelligence (CIS 391 and CIS 521)
  • Data Mining (EMTM 554)
  • Big Data Analytics (CIS 545)
  • Crowdsourcing (EMTM 598)
  • Management of Technology (MGMT 560)
  • Explainable AI (CIS 700)
• The Singularity (under development)
• Tutorials
  • Textmining with Ronen Feldman: SIGIR, KDD,CIKM, ICWSM, and AAAI.
  • Spectral Learning Algorithms for NLP and Crowdsourcing for Statisticians

I am a member of

• Annenberg Public Policy Center (Distinguished research fellow)
• Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN)
• Center for Pharmacoepidemiology Research and Training (CPeRT)
• Institute for Translational Medicine (ITMAT)
• Penn Positive Psychology Center (PPC)

Further information

• Full CV and short biography
• my publications on GoogleScholar, Pubmed, and DBLP

... and most importantly

• Philadelphia restaurants (Broken until I get some time to update it)