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Nicholas FitzGerald

University of Washington

Computer Science and Engineering Email: *****@**.**********.***

Paul G. Allen Center Homepage: http://nfitz.net/

Seattle, WA 98195

Education

1st year Ph.D. student, Computer Science, University of Washington.

Intel Science and Technology Center Fellowship (2012)Advisor: Dr. Luke Zettlemoyer

B.Sc. Cognitive Systems (Computational Intelligence and Design) with Distinction,

University of

British Columbia, 2011.

Research

Interests: Grounded Language Acquisition, Natural Language Processing, Artificial

Intelligence

Current

Luke Zettlemoyer s Group and Intel Science and Technology Center (University of

Washington)

2011 - presentAdvisor: Dr. Luke Zettlemoyer

Joint models of language and perception for Grounded Language Acquisition.

Past Appointments

Laborator y for Computational Intelligence - Computational Linguistics Group (University

of British

Columbia)

Summer2009 -2011

Advisor: Dr. Giuseppe Carenini

Automatic Abstractive Summarization of Web Textual Content.

Wellcome Tr ust Centre for Cell Biology (University of Edinburgh)

Summer2008

Advisor: Dr. Michael Tyers

Developed prototype web-based molecular data-mining application.

Publications

Conference Proceedings

FitzGerald N., Carenini G., Murray G. and Joty S. (2011) Exploiting Conversational

Features to Detect

High-Quality Blog Comments, Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence. St. Johns,

Newfoundland.

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Workshops

ConatiC.,CareniniG.,HaratiM.,TokerD.,FitzGeraldN.,FlaggA.(2011). User-AdaptiveVisualiza-

tions: CanGazeDataTellUsWhenaUserNeedsThem? AAAI-11 Workshop on Scalable Integration of

Analytics and Visualization.

FitzGerald,N.,Carenini,G.andNg,R.(2010). ASSESS:AbstractiveSummarizationSystemforEval-

uativeStatementSummarization, North-West Natural Language Processing Workshop 2010.

Redmond,

WA.

AwardsandHonours

IntelScienceandTechnologyCenterFellowship(2011-present

)

ComputingResearchAssociationOutstandingUndergraduateResearchAward 2011 (HonourableMen-

tion)

UBCGoGlobalInternationalTravelAward 2010 - to attend Universitas 21 International

Undergraduate

Research Conference in Melbourne, Australia.

MostImaginativeResearchAward- Universitas 21 International Undergraduate Research

Conference in

Melbourne, Australia.

UBCDean sList- 2009, 2010 and 2011

UBCComputerScienceTeachingAssistantAward 2010

UBCTrekExcellenceAward 2008-2009TeachingExperience

Courses TAed For

CPSC 101:ConnectingwithComputerScience

CPSC 121:ModelsofComputation

CPSC 213:IntroductiontoComputerSystems

COGS 200:IntroductiontoCognitiveSystem

COGS 303:ResearchMethodsinCognitiveScience

Lastupdated:January 30, 2012

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