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Kevin Ellis

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
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About

Kevin Ellis is an assistant professor of computer science. He works on program synthesis and neurosymbolic AI. Ellis earned his Ph.D. in cognitive science and his B.S. in physics with a concentration in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Research areas
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Machine Learning
Programming Languages
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Contact
kellis@cornell.edu
Location
Ithaca
Office
Computing and Information Science Building 486
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Faculty (Department)
Computer Science

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NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER)

National Science Foundation
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  • 2024

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