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Bonnie J. Dorr, Ph.D.

Professor

Affiliations AI/Machine Learning, Faculty
Office 2226E MAE Personal Website: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~bonniejdorr/ Lab Website: https://nlp.cise.ufl.edu/

Biography

Bonnie J. Dorr is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Florida and a member of the Florida Institute for National Security (FINS). She leads the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Research Laboratory, where her work centers on artificial intelligence methods for deep language understanding, multilingual processing, and explainable AI.

Before joining UF, Dr. Dorr served as Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), following a distinguished 24-year career as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. During her tenure at Maryland, she also served as Associate Dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. She later became a Program Manager at DARPA, overseeing human language technology programs advancing natural language understanding and translation.

Dr. Dorr is a Fellow of the ACM, AAAI, and ACL, a recipient of the NSF Presidential Faculty (PECASE) Fellowship, and a Sloan Research Fellow. She is a past President of the Association for Computational Linguistics and a former member of DARPA’s Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group.

Primary Research Area

Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.M., Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.A., Computer Science, Boston University

Publications

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Awards & Distinctions

  • Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), for human-centered and linguistically inspired approaches to natural language processing, 2021
  • Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), for significant contributions to machine translation, summarization, and human evaluation, 2016
  • Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), for contributions to natural language understanding and representation, 2013
  • NSF Presidential Faculty (PECASE) Fellow, conferred by the U.S. President, 1996
  • Sloan Research Fellow
  • Member, DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group, 2020–2024