SEMBLANZA EDUARD HENDRIK HOVY

Doctor Honoris Causa por la UNED 2013

Dr. Hovy currently holds several positions:

•       Director of the Human Language Technology Group at ISI.  The NL Group, which currently contains about 40 people, consists of several related projects, conducting research in various aspects of natural language processing, including text summarization, machine translation, text parsing and generation, question answering, information retrieval, discourse and dialogue processing, and ontologies.
•       Deputy Director of the Intelligent Systems Division of ISI, which performs Artificial Intelligence research.  In this capacity Dr. Hovy helps administer the division, which currently contains about 150 people.

•       Research Associate Professor of Computer Science at USC.  Dr. Hovy regularly co-teaches a graduate course and advises Ph.D. and M.S. students

•       Co-Director for Research of the Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA). Rutgers University heads a consortium of about 20 universities, including USC, in this Center of Excellence funded by the Department of Homeland Security University Affiliates Center program.  Research focuses on a broad range of topics of interest to data analysis and threat identification.

•       Director of Research for the Digital Government Research Center (DGRC).  The DGRC is one of three NSF-supported centers in the US that perform research in various aspects of Digital Government (the other two are the Center for Technology in Government (CTG) at the University of Albany, NY, which focuses on the use of technology in government organizations, and the National Center for Digital Government (NCDG) at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA, which focuses on political science).  The DGRC focuses on Information and Communications Technology (ICT), housing several projects at any time.

•       Regular High-Level Visiting Scientist, International Guest Academic Talents (IGAT) Program for the Development of University Disciplines in China (111 Program), Jan 2008–Dec 2012.

•       Advisory Professor, Department of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Beijing, China.  (Sep 2005–Aug 2010).

•       Concurrent Professor, Department of Computer Science, Northeastern University. Shenyang, China. (Oct 2008–Sep 2011).

•       Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, KAIST.  Daejoon, Korea. (Sep 2005–Aug 2012).

•       Adjunct Associate Professor (May 2010 – April 2013), School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo.

Service in professional organizations:

•       President (2008–09), President-Elect (2006–08), and Past President (2010–11), Digital Government Society of North America (DGSNA)

•       President (2001–03), President-Elect (1999–01), and Treasurer (2003–09), International Association of Machine Translation (IAMT); member of Council (1996–99).

•       Past President (2002), President (2001), Vice President (2000), Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL); member of Executive Committee, 1994–1997.

•       President (1996–2000), Vice President (1994–96), and Wise Counselor (2002–05), Association of Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA).

•       Member of Executive Committee (2000), North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL). One of three people tasked with establishing this chapter for the ACL.

•       Chair of committee (2005–06) tasked with creating the constitutions to form the North American Digital Government Society and International Digital Electronic Government Society (IDEGS).

•       Chair of committee (2002–03) tasked with establishing HLT-NAACL joint conference series, and first coverall conference chair.  Appointed by joint agreement of US funding agencies (DARPA, NSF, ARDA) and ACL.

•       Member of Executive Committee, SIGMEDIA, 1992–93.

Madrid, enero de 2013