Bio

Jacob Eisenstein stands boldly in the cross-section of social computing and language processing as an authority in the field. An assistant professor for the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Eisenstein works on statistical natural language processing, focusing on computational sociolinguistics, social media analysis, discourse, and machine learning. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a member of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program, and was a Scottish Information & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. His work has been supported by the National Institutes for Health, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Google. Eisenstein was a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He completed his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008, winning the George M. Sprowls dissertation award. Eisenstein’s research has been featured in The New York Times, on National Public Radio, and the BBC. Thanks to his brief appearance in “If These Knishes Could Talk,” Jacob has a Bacon number of 2.