PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Fernando C. N. Pereira

Also known as Fernando Pereira

Fernando C. N. Pereira’s research spans language processing and machine learning. His career spans academic institutions with industrial AI research. Pereira earned an artificial intelligence doctorate at Edinburgh in 1982. His research includes language, learning, speech recognition, and logic programming. His career includes earlier work at SRI, leadership of machine learning and information retrieval at AT&T, and chairing Pennsylvania’s computer and information science department.

Works
515
Citations
31,025
h-index
74

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

Photo of Fernando C. N. Pereira

Timeline

  1. 1982

    An AI doctorate

    Pereira earned an artificial intelligence doctorate at Edinburgh in 1982. His research includes language, learning, speech recognition, and logic programming.

  2. 1991

    Research recognition

    AAAI elected Fernando C. N. Pereira as a Fellow in 1991.

  3. 2017

    A shared parsing framework

    Pereira coauthored SLING, a framework for frame semantic parsing, with Michael Ringgaard and Rahul Gupta in 2017.

  4. As of October 2026

    Research leadership across institutions

    He earlier worked at earlier work at SRI, leadership of machine learning and information retrieval at AT&T, and chairing Pennsylvania’s computer and information science department.

Sources and credits

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  1. Fernando Pereira - Research at Google (https://research.google.com/intl/en/pubs/author1092.html) research.google.com. Checked 13 October 2026.
  2. Elected AAAI Fellows — 1991 — Fernando C. N. Pereira aaai.org. Checked 13 October 2026.