Dan Roth is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Beckman Institute
of Advanced Science and Technology (UIUC) and a Willett Faculty
Scholar of the College of Engineering. Prof. Roth got his B.A Summa
cum laude in Mathematics from the Technion, Israel, in 1982 and his
Ph.D in Computer Science from Harvard University in 1995.

Prof. Roth has published broadly in machine learning, natural
language processing, knowledge representation and reasoning. His
paper awards include the best paper award in the International Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in 1999 and the
American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Innovative
Applications of AI Award in 2001. Other awards include the NSF
CAREER Award (1999), the Xerox Award for Faculty Research (2001,
2005), and the University of Illinois Award for Research with
Undergraduates (2002, 2006).

Prof. Roth has developed several machine learning based systems
that have been used and licensed widely, including an award
winning semantic parser. He has presented invited talks in several
international conferences including the conference of the American
Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2006), Empirical
Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2002) and the
European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML-2002).

Prof. Roth is currently an associate editor for the Journal of
Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and the Machine Learning
Journal and has been on the editorial board of other AI,
Computational Linguistics, and Machine Learning Journals. He was the
program co-chair of CoNLL'02 and the program co-chair of ACL'03, the
main international meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics and the natural language processing community. He was
also the the president (elected) of SIGNLL, the Association of
Computational Linguistics, Special Interest Group on Natural
Language Learning (2003-2005).