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XIAOJINZHU
Xiaojin Zhu is an assistant professor in the Computer Sciences department at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include statistical machine learning and its applications
in cognitive psychology, natural language processing, and programming languages. Xiaojin received
his Ph.D. from the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. He
worked on Mandarin speech recognition as a research staff member at IBM China Research Lab-
oratory in 1996-1998. He received M.S. and B.S. in computer science from Shanghai Jiao Tong
University in 1996 and 1993, respectively. His other interests include astronomy and geology.
ANDREWB. GOLDBERG
Andrew B. Goldberg is a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Sciences department at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests lie in statistical machine learning (in particular, semi-
supervised learning) and natural language processing. He has served on the program committee
for national and international conferences including AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, and NAACL-HLT.
Andrew was the recipient of a UW-Madison First-Year Graduate School Fellowship for 2005-2006
and a Yahoo! Key Technical Challenges Grant for 2008-2009. Before his graduate studies, Andrew
received a B.A. in computer science from Amherst College, where he graduated magna cum laude
with departmental distinction in 2003. He then spent two years writing, editing, and developing
teaching materials for introductory computer science and Web programming textbooks at Deitel
and Associates. During this time, he contributed to several Deitel topics and co-authored the 3rd
edition of Internet &World Wide Web How to Program . In 2005, Andrew entered graduate school at
UW-Madison and, in 2006 received his M.S. in computer science. In his free time, Andrew enjoys
live music, cooking, photography, and travel.
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