Professor
Director of Doctoral Studies
Assistant Graduate Advisor
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
Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
Natural Language Processing
Information Retrieval and Web Search