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Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

Associate Professor of Information Science
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About

Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil is an associate professor of information science. His research aims at developing computational frameworks that can lead to a better understanding of human social behavior by unlocking the unprecedented potential of the large amounts of natural language data generated online. His awards and honors include a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Google Research Faculty Award, and numerous Best Paper awards. His work has been featured in popular media outlets such as the New Scientist, NBC's The Today Show, NPR, BBC, WIRED, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. For publications, recent updates and more fun stuff, check out Cristian's webpage.

Research Website
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Research areas
AI (CS)
Data Science
Human Centered Natural Language Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computational approaches to studying people and society
Natural Language Processing (IS)
Computational Social Sciences
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing (CS)
Contact
cd326@cornell.edu
Location
Ithaca
Office
Computing and Information Science Building 260
Profile Type
Faculty (Department)
Information Science
Faculty (Field)
Computer Science

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NSF Early Career Development (CAREER) Award

National Science Foundation
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
  • Education
  • 2018

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NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER)

National Science Foundation
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
  • Education
  • 2018

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