About Me

I'm an associate professor in the iSchool at the University of Maryland. I joined the faculty in August 2004, shortly after completing my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and was promoted to associate professor in March 2009. I also have appointments in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) and the Department of Computer Science at Maryland.

I work at the intersection of natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR), with a recent emphasis on scalable algorithm design and large-data issues. I'm a member of both the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Lab (CLIP) and the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL).

I'm currently on leave at Twitter, so that's why you should definitely follow @lintool on Twitter here!

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News

See also: Press clippings

2011/12/02 Talk at University of Amsterdam. Slides: [pptx] [pdf]
2011/11/30 SIKS/BiG Grid Advanced Tutorial on Big Data in Twente, the Netherlands. Slides: [pptx] [pdf]
2011/08/07 Tutorial at AAAI 2011. Slides: [pptx]
2011/07/19 Keynote at ICWSM 2011.
2011/06/03 Posted preprints for 3 SIGIR full papers and 1 poster.
2011/05/29 Attending the Qatar Computing Research Institute roundtable on cloud computing.
2011/05/25 Article in Chronicle of Higher Education about my sabbatical at Twitter.
2011/05/25 Plenary talk at the 28th Annual HCIL Symposium.
2011/04/13 It's official! I'm taking a leave of absence from the university to spend at Twitter until August 2012.
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Contact Information

Jimmy Lin
Hornbake 2117F
The iSchool — College of Information Studies
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

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