Matthew Lease
Associate Professor
- Email: ml@utexas.edu
- Phone: (512) 471-9350
- Room: UTA 5.536
- URL: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ml/
Specialization(s)
Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval and Web Search
Bio
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.
Ph.D. Computer Science, Brown University, 2010
M.Sc. Computer Science, Brown University, 2004
B.Sc. Computer Science, University of Washington, 1999
| Year | Semester | Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Spring | INF 380E | Perspectives on Information |
| 2018 | Fall | INF 384H | Concepts of Information Retrieval |
| 2018 | Fall | INF 350E | Information Technology: Concepts of Information Retrieval |
| 2018 | Spring | INF 380E | Perspectives on Information |
| 2017 | Fall | INF 385T.03 | Special Topics in Information Science: Human Computation & Crowdsourcing |
| 2017 | Spring | INF 380E | Perspectives on Information |
| 2016 | Fall | INF 384H | Concepts of Information Retrieval |
| 2016 | Fall | INF 350E | Information Technology: Concepts of Information Retrieval |
| 2016 | Spring | INF 380E | Perspectives on Information |
| 2015 | Fall | INF 385T.03 | Special Topics in Information Science: Human Computation & Crowdsourcing |
| 2015 | Spring | INF 380E | Perspectives on Information |
| 2014 | Fall | INF 384H | Concepts of Information Retrieval |
| 2014 | Spring | INF 385T | Special Topics in Information Science: Human Computation & Crowdsourcing |
| 2013 | Fall | INF 380E | Perspectives on Information |
| 2013 | Fall | INF 384H | Concepts of Information Retrieval |
| 2013 | Spring | INF 380E | Perspectives on Information |
| 2012 | Fall | INF 384H | Concepts of Information Retrieval |
| 2012 | Spring | INF 385T | Special Topics in Information Science: Crowdsourcing: Theory/Methods |
| 2012 | Spring | INF 383D | Mathematical Foundations of Information Studies |
| 2011 | Fall | INF 385T | Special Topics in Information Science: Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce |
| 2011 | Fall | INF 384H | Concepts of Information Retrieval |
| 2011 | Spring | INF 385T | Special Topics in Information Science: Crowdsourcing: Theory/Methods |
| 2011 | Spring | INF 384C | Organizing Information |
| 2010 | Fall | INF 385T | Special Topics in Information Science: Topics in Information Retrieval and Web Search |
| 2010 | Fall | INF 384C | Organizing Information |
| 2010 | Spring | INF 383D | Mathematical Foundations of Information Studies |
| 2010 | Spring | INF 385T | Special Topics in Information Science: Topics in Information Retrieval and Web Search |