Position
Professor of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
Office
301 Information Technology and Engineering (ITE) Building
Contact Info
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
phone: (410) 455-3965
email: sergei@cs.umbc.edu
Education
Ph.D., Linguistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1980
M.Sc., Computational Linguistics, Kharkov State University, Kharkov, USSR, 1974
Employment
- 2002 – Present, Professor, UMBC, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
- 1994 – 2002, Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
- 1994 – 2002, Professor, Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University
- 1991 – 1994, Senior Research Computer Scientist, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- 1987 – 1991, Research Computer Scientist, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- 1984 – 1985, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
- 1982 – 1986, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
- 1980 – 1982, Junior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Research Areas
Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge-Based Systems, Machine Translation, Ontological Semantics, Computational Linguistics. To learn more about Dr. Nirenburg’s research pursuits, read his research profile.