Liang Huang's Homepage at ISI
Liang Huang
Computer Scientist @ Natural Language Group
Information Sciences Institute (ISI)
University of Southern California (USC), Viterbi School of Engineering
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001 (Rm. 913)
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
(310) 448-9184
I got my Ph.D. in 2008 from the University of Pennsylvania where my main homepage
is here.
After that, I worked at Google as a Research Scientist
before moving back to ISI, the place where I spent a significant portion of my
grad school years.
[CV]
“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
--- E. W. Dijkstra (1930-2002)
Teaching
Currently teaching USC's
CS 562, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Fall 2009,
with David Chiang.
Courses taught in the past: Python Programming (Penn) and Machine Translation (CAS/ICT).
Recitations taught in the past: Algorithms (Penn) and Automata and Formal Language Theory (Penn).
Research
My research interests are mainly in the theoretical aspects
(algorithms and formalisms) of
computational linguistics.
For the moment please refer to my Penn homepage.
An approximation of my NLP papers on Google Scholar.
Misc
- I am from Shanghai, China, and speak Wu as my mother tongue.
- I am color-blind.
- I love Baroque Music.
- I code in Python mainly, and try to avoid C/C++. I also like OCaml and Prolog, and hate Perl.
- I enjoy playing ping-pong and badminton.