Dr. Yigal Arens
Professional profile
Research Interests
Unexpected events, digital government, intelligent access to multiple heterogeneous information sources,
human-computer interfaces, multimedia interfaces, natural language
understanding and generation, representation of information.
Education
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1974
B.A., Mathematics, Cum Laude
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1977
M.A., Mathematics
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1986
Ph.D., Mathematics
Work History
- Division Director
1999 - Present
Intelligent Systems Division
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
- Research Professor
2002 - present
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
University of Southern California
- Director
2002-2003
Center for Research on Unexpected Events
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
- Co-Director
1998 - Present
DGRC: The USC/ISI-Columbia University Digital
Government Research Center
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
- Deputy Division Director
1997 - 1999
Intelligent Systems Division
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
- Project Leader
1989 - 1999
SIMS:
Single Interface to Multiple Sources group of projects
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
- Project Member and later Project Leader,
II:
1987 - 1989
Integrated Interfaces project
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
- Assistant Professor
1983 - 1989 (on leave 1987 - 1989)
Computer Science Department
University of Southern California
- Consultant
1985 - 1987
to the Penman natural language generation project
Information Sciences Institute
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