Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

Regina Barzilay is the Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. She is internationally known in the fields of natural language processing and computational linguistics, and is widely respected as a creative thought leader, Barzilay’s research on natural languages focuses on the development of models of natural language, and uses those models to solve real-world language processing tasks. Barzilay’s work enables the automated summarization of documents, machine interpretation of natural language instructions, and the deciphering of ancient languages.