Roger Levy
Chair Of The MIT Faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRoger Levy is a cognitive scientist and computational linguist who combines computational modeling, psycholinguistic experimentation, and large-scale language data analysis to study how humans process and acquire language. As Chair of the MIT Faculty and a Professor in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, he directs the Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory and brings over a decade of academic leadership across top institutions including MIT, UC San Diego, and Edinburgh. His work probes how fixed cognitive resources manage uncertainty over unbounded signals—a theoretical thread that also informs practical NLP model design. Trained at Stanford (PhD) with a background in mathematics and interdisciplinary language study, he bridges rigorous formal theory with empirical lab and corpus methods. An uncommon strength is his simultaneous focus on cognitive foundations and actionable algorithms for machine language processing, positioning him at the intersection of theory, experiment, and engineering.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Inter-University Program for Chinese Language StudyThe University of ArizonaUniversity of TokyoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics at Stanford University
English, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, German
Github Skills (12)
machine-learning2
languagetool1
command-line-tool1
pytorch1
python1
refactoring1
nlp1
api1
deep-learning1
evaluation1
abstract-syntax-tree1
lexicon1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rlevy/cogsci-template
Nov 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 2 years 6 months
rlevy/9.19-syllabus
Aug 2021 - Dec 2023
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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