Speaker
Jacob Devlin
Research Scientist, Google Seattle
Jacob Devlin is a Staff Research Scientist at Google. At Google, his primary research interest is developing fast, powerful, and scalable deep learning models for information retrieval, question answering, and other language understanding tasks. From 2014 to 2017, he worked as a Principle Research Scientist at Microsoft Research, where he led Microsoft Translate's transition from phrase-based translation to neural machine translation (NMT). Mr. Devlin was the recipient of the ACL 2014 Best Long Paper award and the NAACL 2012 Best Short Paper award. He received his Master's in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in 2009, advised by Dr. Bonnie Dorr.
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