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Career

· Senior Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)2020–
· Co-founder, Lattice Data, Inc.2015–2017
· Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan2009–2020
· M.Sc., Computer Science, University of Washington2005–
· PhD in Computer Science, University of Washington2005–2009
· M.Sc., Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh1997–
· B.S., Computer Science, Brown University1996–
· Software Engineer, Marimba
· Software Engineer, Tellme Networks

Publications (231)

Open Information Extraction from the Web
CACM · 2007
2,554
cited
Unsupervised named-entity extraction from the Web: An experimental study
Artificial Intelligence · 2005
1,291
cited
Web-scale information extraction in knowitall: (preliminary results)
The Web Conference · 2004
923
cited
WebTables: exploring the power of tables on the web
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 2008
757
cited
TextRunner: Open Information Extraction on the Web
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2007
413
cited
Data Integration for the Relational Web
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 2009
269
cited
Theoretical Limits of Hydrogen Storage in Metal–Organic Frameworks: Opportunities and Trade-Offs
2013
242
cited
Uncovering the Relational Web
International Workshop on the Web and Databases · 2008
192
cited
Automatic Optimization for MapReduce Programs
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 2011
187
cited
Machine Reading
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2006
157
cited
Methods for Domain-Independent Information Extraction from the Web: An Experimental Comparison
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2004
148
cited
KnowItNow: Fast, Scalable Information Extraction from the Web
Human Language Technology - The Baltic Perspectiv · 2005
141
cited
Foofah: Transforming Data By Example
SIGMOD Conference · 2017
130
cited
Visualization-aware sampling for very large databases
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering · 2015
128
cited
Using Social Media to Measure Labor Market Flows
2014
125
cited
Brainwash: A Data System for Feature Engineering
Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research · 2013
120
cited
Structured data on the web
Communications of the ACM · 2011
119
cited
Automatic web spreadsheet data extraction
SS@ '13 · 2013
115
cited
A search engine for natural language applications
The Web Conference · 2005
101
cited
Web-scale extraction of structured data
SGMD · 2009
98
cited
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