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Jimmy Lin

Hornbake 2117F
The iSchool
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

I'm an associate professor in the iSchool at the University of Maryland. I joined the faculty as an assistant professor in August 2004, shortly after completing my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. My Ph.D. thesis was in theoretical linguistics (minimalist syntax)! I was promoted to associate professor in March 2009.

In addition, I'm affiliated with a number of other organizations:

I work at the intersection of natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR). A recent research focus is large-data distributed applications with MapReduce. Check out my new Cloud Computing Center!

Also of interest: my forthcoming MapReduce book.

News

2009/10/02Featured in a New York Times article titled "Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data"
2009/10/05CLuE PI Meeting 2009 for the Google/IBM Academic Cloud Computing Initative (ACCI) in the bay area
2009/07/19Tutorial at SIGIR 2009: "Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce"
2009/06/10Presentation on Genetic Sequence Analysis in the Clouds [pptx, pdf] at the Hadoop Summit 2009.
2009/05/31Tutorial at NAACL HLT 2009: "Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce" (with Chris Dyer)
2009/05/13Investing in the Cloud: A Breakfast Conversation
2009/05/06Tech Talk at Google about cloud computing research and educational activities at Maryland
2009/04/15Presentation at the Washington DC Hadoop Users Group (HUG) Meeting.
2009/04/03Slides from a short course I taught on cloud computing and Hadoop.
2009/03/31Quoted in a Washington Post article on cloud computing.
[More cloud computing and MapReduce/Hadoop stuff...]

Cloud Computing Projects

Research

Teaching

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