Brief CV Khalil Sima'an
Professor of Computational Linguistics
Vice director education at Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
Faculty of Exact Sciences (FNWI)
Education
1987 Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Technion, Haifa.
1992 M.Sc. in Computer Science, UvA, Amsterdam (Supervisor: Paul Klint, UvA).
1999 Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics, Utrecht University, Utrecht (Promotores: Jan Landsbergen and Remko Scha).
Overview work history
1987-89 Haifa Orthodox Arab College, Teacher of Maths and CS subjects.
1987-88 Arabic Language Educational Software Initiative, Co-founder (together with Johny Srouji, Apple).
1990-92 University of Amsterdam, Teaching Assistant in Dept of Informatics.
1993 Delft University of Technology, Research Assistant (Temporal Logics and Process Algebras as specification languages for real-time systems).
1994-96, UiL-OTS Utrecht University, Researcher/programmer (European Project CLASK -- Combining Linguistics with Statistical Knowledge).
1997 UiL-OTS Utrecht University, Researcher/programmer (NWO programme for Language and Speech Technology OVIS)
1998 UiL-OTS Utrecht University, NWO personal grant: Wrote and defended a Ph.D. Thesis Learning Efficient Disambiguation
1999-2000 ILK, Tilburg University, Postdoc researcher (Probabilistic Memory-Based Model of Language Processing)
2001- 02 University of Amsterdam, Royal Academy (KNAW) Fellow
2003-2010 University of Amsterdam, Assistant Professor at ILLC
2006-2011 University of Amsterdam, VIDI laureate NWO Exact Sciences.
2006-2014 University of Amsterdam, Associate Professor
2011-17 University of Amsterdam, Deputy Leader of the Section Language and Computation.
2013-17, University of Amsterdam, VICI laureate NWO Exact Sciences.
2014-Now, University of Amsterdam, Full professor; Chair of Computational Linguistics.
2014-18, Leader of the Language and Computation research unit.
2022-Now, University of Amsterdam, Vice director education at ILLC.
Prizes, Awards and Grants (ongoing projects in boldface)
2014-17 QT21 H2020 Cracking the language barrier (Euro 300k)
2013-18 Vici Laureate NWO. Machine Translators: Teaching Computers to Translate Using their own Words (Euro 1.5 million)
2012-16 Marie Curie ITN project EXPERT (Euro 420k)
2012-17 STW (Technology Foundation) project DatAptor (Euro 750k)
2012-17 Free Competition of NWO Exact Sciences Board (Statistical Translation of Novel Constructions, Euro 230k)
2010-15 Free Competition of NWO Exact Sciences Board, project proposal: Machine Translation When Exact Pattern Match Fails (Euro 220k)
2007 Best paper award, BNAIC 2007 (together with M. Mylonakis)
2006-2010 Vidi laureate of NWO Exact Sciences Board: Priors for the Estimation of Stochastic Grammars from Incomplete Natural Language Data (Euro 760k)
2002-03 Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
2000 Outstanding dissertation award European Foundation for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) for Learning Efficient Disambiguation (ILLC dissertation series 1999-02).
2000 Best paper award, BNAIC 2000
Research community service:
2015-17 Advisory Board Member TRAMOOC European Project.
2014-19 Member of the Standing Elite Reviewing pool for Transactions of the ACL (TACL)
2013-23 Co-opted member of the Executive Committee of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT)
2011-21 Member of the Editorial Board of Machine Translation journal
2011-Now Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Natural Language Engineering (JNLE).
2011-Now Advisory Board Member for John Benjamins Publishers' book series on Natural Language Processing
2011-Now Member of the Editorial Board of the CLIN Journal http://www.clinjournal.org/
2014 Tutorial Co-chair EMNLP 2015
2014-15 Guest editor for Journal of Language Modelling.
2013 Programme Chair for IWPT 2013 (International Conference on Parsing Technologies).
2013 Programme Chair (Research Track) for MT Summit XIV
2010 ACL 2010 Area Co-chair for the "Syntax, parsing, grammar induction, grammar engineering".