Matthew Lease
Professor; Director of Doctoral Studies; Assistant Graduate Advisor
ml@utexas.edu
(512) 471-9350
UTA 5.536
https://mattlease.com/
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Biography
Matthew Lease received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University and his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Washington. He has received early career awards from the NSF, IMLS, and DARPA. Recent honors include Best Student Paper at the 2019 European Conference for Information Retrieval (ECIR) and Best Paper at the 2016 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Human Computation and Crowdsourcing conference (HCOMP). Lease is currently helping lead Good Systems, an eight-year, university-wide Grand Challenge Initiative at UT Austin to design AI technologies that maximally benefit society.
Degrees
Ph.D. Computer Science, Brown University, 2010
M.Sc. Computer Science, Brown University, 2004
B.Sc. Computer Science, University of Washington, 1999
Areas Of Specialization
Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
Natural Language Processing
Information Retrieval and Web Search
Recent Awards
- Inaugural Test of Time Paper Award awarded for papers from 2013-2014, AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP)
- Most Influential Paper Award, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
- Best Student Paper, Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST)
- the Conference Award Track, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR, 2020)
- Best Student Paper, European Conference for Information Retrieval (ECIR)