Biographical Information

• Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, (2003-present)
• Research Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, (2002-2003)
• VP, Research and Development WhizBang! Labs; Director, WhizBang! Labs, East, (2000-2002.)
• Adjunct Faculty, Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Automated Learning and Discovery & Language Technologies Institute, (1998-2002).
  Research Scientist, Research Coordinator, Just Research (formerly JPRC), (1997-2000).
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon, Computer Science with Sebastian Thrun and Tom Mitchell, 1996.
• Ph.D., University of Rochester, Computer Science, with Dana Ballard, 1995.
• B.A., Dartmouth College, 1989.
• H.S., NCSSM, 1985.

Current Bio Sketch:

Andrew McCallum is an Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He was previously Vice President of Research and Development at WhizBang Labs, a company that used machine learning for information extraction from the Web. In the late 1990's he was a Research Scientist and Coordinator at Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University after receiving his PhD from the University of Rochester in 1995. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Machine Learning Research. For the past eight years, McCallum has been active in research on statistical machine learning applied to text, especially information extraction, document classification, finite state models, and semi-supervised learning. Web page: http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum.

Old Bio Sketches:

• Bio while VP at WhizBang Labs
• Bio from preface to Ph.D. thesis