D avid Kirk Evans

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Research Interests

Summarization, particularly multi- document and multi - lingual

s um marization, Machine Translation, and Cross - lingual Information

Access and Retrieval.

Education

2000 May 2005

PhD in Computer Science, C olumbia University, C omputer Science

Depart ment, Natural Language Processing Group.

T hesis: Identifying Similarity in Text: Multilingual Analysis for

Summarization

Cumulative GPA: 3.951 on a 4.0 scale.

1997 February 2000

C olumbia University, New York, New York

Master of Science, Computer Science, May 2000

1 992 May 1997

Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

Magna Cum Laude B.S. Electrical Engineering, May 1997.

Magna Cum Laude B.S. Computer Science, May 1997.

Liberal Arts honors program.

C omputer Science Major GPA: 3.805 on a 4.0 scale.

Electrical Engineering Major GPA: 3.659 on a 4.0 scale.

Math Minor GPA: 3.720 on a 4.0 scale.

Japanese Minor GPA: 4.000 on a 4.0 scale.

A cademic and Work Experience

1997 2005

Columbia University, New York, New York

Funded Graduated Research Assistant on the National Science

Foundation Grant "Automatic Identification of Significant Topics in

D omain - independent Full Text Documents" . Implemente d LinkIT, a

s oftware tool for identifying significant topics using linguistics

t echniques, developed methods to analyze perfor ma nce of an

a pplication of the above to an Information Retrieval task.

I mplemented software for automatic similarity detection between

p assages in multiple document s in multiple languages for

s ummarization applications under the TIDES program .

Summer 2001

Instructor for Baruch College Continuing and Professional Studies

ZITS 3005 Java II Server- side Java.

Summer 2001

Instructor for Columbia University COMS W1007 - 1 Object- oriented

p rogram mi ng and design in Java.

Spring 2001

Instructor for Baruch College Continuing and Professional Studies

ZITS 3003 Java I Introduction to Java Program mi ng.

Spring 2000

Teaching Assistant for Columbia University COMS W4771 - 1 Machine

Learning.

Fall 1999

Teaching Assistant for Columbia University COMS W4705- 1 N atural

Language Processing .

1999 1999

Summer internship at IBM Japan's Chuo Rinkan facility. Researched

a utomatic methods for customer trouble ticket routing and

c ategorization.

1 995 1997

Southern Methodist University, Information Technology Services,

D allas, Texas

Junior network engineer; maintained campus wide ethernet network.

1 996 1996

Summer internship at NTT's Yokosuka facility. Research on

d etermining word similarity using specialized parallel hardware.

H uman Languages

Japanese Three years at Southern Methodist University, four years

a t Columbia University. Business level fluency.

German Four years at West Windsor Plainsboro High School.

Computer Languages

Perl, Java, C, C++

Publications

1. Gary A. Evans, David K. Evans, Scott C. Randall, Jieh- Ping Sih, and

Nai- Hsiang Sun, "Modeig II: Personal Computer Software for Analysis

o f Complex Waveguides and Optoelectronic Devices," Progress In

Electromagnetic Research (PIERS '95) Seattle, WA, July, 1995

2. Klavans, Judith L., Nina Wacholder, David Kirk Evans, Evaluation of

C omputational Linguistic Techniques for Identifying Significant

T opics for Browsing Applications, Second International Conference

o n Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC- 2000 ), May 31 - June 2,

2 000, Athens, Greece.

3. Evans, David Kirk, Judith L. Klavans, Nina Wacholder, Document

Processing with LinkIT, RIAO 2000, Recherche d'Informations

A ssist e par Ordinateur (Content - Based Multimedia Information

A ccess), April 12- 14, 2000, Coll ge de France, Paris, France

4. Wacholder, Nina, Judith L. Klavans, David K. Evans, Evaluation of

A utomatically Identified Index Terms for Browsing Electronic

D ocuments, A NLP- NAACL 2000, Seattle, WA, April 24 - May 4,

2 000.

5. Nina Wacholder, David Evans, Judith Klavans, Automatic

Identification and Organization of Index Terms For Interactive

Browsing, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Roanoke, VA,,

J un 2001.

6. Kathy McKeown, Regina Barzilay, David Evans, Vasilis

H atzivassiloglou, Mn- Yen Kan, Barry Schiffman, Simone Teufel,

Columbia Multi- document Summarization: Approach and

Evaluation, Document Understanding Conference 2001 (DUC 01), Sep

2 001.

7. Kathleen R. McKeown, Regina Barzilay, David Evans, Vasileios

H atzivassiloglou, Judith Klavans, Ani Nenkova, Carl Sable, Barry

Schiffman, Tracking and Summarizing News on a Daily Basis with

C olumbia's Newsblaster, H uman Language Technology Conference,

Mar 2002.

8. Kathleen McKeown, Regina Barzilay, Sasha Blair- Goldensohn, David

Evans, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Judith Klavans, Ani Nenkova, Barry

Schiffman, The Columbia Multi- Document Summarizer for DUC

2 002., Second Document Understanding Conference (DUC),

Philadelphia, PA, Jun 2002.

9. David Evans, Judith L. Klavans, Kathleen R. McKeown, Columbia

Newsblaster: Multilingual News Summarization on the Web, H uman

Language Technology (HLT), Boston, MA, May 2004.

10. Ani Nenkova, Sasha Blair- Goldensohn, David Evans, Andrew Hazen

Schlaikjer, Advaith Siddarthan, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Kathleen

McKeown, Becky Passonnea u, Columbia University at DUC 2004,

Document Understanding Conference (DUC), Boston, MA, May 2004.

1 1. David Kirk Evans, Kathleen McKeown, Identifying Similarities and

Differences Across English and Arabic News, International

Conference on Intelligence Analysis, McLean, VA, May 2005.

12. Advaith Siddharthan, David Kirk Evans, Columbia University at

MSE2005, 2 005 Multilingual Sum m ariz ation Evaluation Workshop,

Ann Arbor, MI, June 29th 2005.

References

Dr. Judith L. Klavans

Director of Research, Center for Advanced Study of Language

College of Information Studies, Room 4117M Hornbake, University of

Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 - 4345

Telephone: 301- 405- 2033, E- Mail: j abqnpf@r.postjobfree.com

Dr. Kathleen McKeown

Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University

Departme nt of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, New

York, 10027

Telephone: 212- 939- 7118, E- Mail: k abqnpf@r.postjobfree.com

Dr. Tetsuya Nasukawa

IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Japan, Ltd. (LAB- S7C)

1623 - 14 Shimotsur u m a, Yamato - shi, Kanagawa - ken, 242- 8502 Japan

Telephone: +81 - 46- 215- 4574, E- Mail: abqnpf@r.postjobfree.com

Extracurricular activities

Recording Secretary of Tau Beta Pi TX I chapter (1996 - 1997 academic

y ear).

Secretary of IEEE Student Chapter at SMU (1994 - 1995 academic year).

Vice President of Tau Beta Pi TX I chapter (1994 - 1995 academic year).

President of Tau Beta Pi, TX I chapter (1993 - 1994 academic year)

Organized and played in the IEEE Intramural Basketball team (1993 -

1994 academic year)

A wards

Columbia University, Paul Charles Michelman Memorial Award for

Exemplary Depart ment al Service, December 14th 2000

Southern Methodist University Honor Roll Fall 1992 to Spring 1997

Souther Methodist University, Tatum Award for Outstanding Electrical

Engineering Student (1997)

Southern Methodist University, University Scholar (1992 - 1996)

Southern Methodist University, Lindsey J. Embrey Scholarship (1992 -

1996)

Southern Methodist University, Tau Beta Pi "Most Valuable Member"

a ward (1994)

Southern Methodist University, Golden Key Honor Society (1994)

Southern Methodist University, Eta Kappa Nu (1994)

Professional membership s

IEEE Computer Society

Association of Computational Linguistics

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