PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Mans Hulden

Also known as Måns Huldén

Mans Hulden is a computer scientist whose work connects finite-state language processing with machine learning and neural NLP. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2009 and presented Foma, a finite-state compiler and library, at EACL in 2009. Before moving to Colorado in 2014, he did Marie Curie postdoctoral work in Helsinki and served as an Ikerbasque visiting professor; he later taught at Colorado before moving to New College in 2024. His work includes a 2018 neural analyzer for Arapaho verbs, PyFoma in 2024, and a 2026 method for inducing transducers from a recurrent neural network. As of October 2026, he is associate professor of computer science at New College of Florida.

Timeline

  1. 2009

    A University of Arizona PhD

    He earns a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2009.

  2. 2009

    The Foma finite-state toolkit

    At EACL in 2009, he presents Foma, a finite-state compiler and library. The toolkit supports natural language processing and research in automata theory.

  3. By 2014

    Marie Curie and Ikerbasque posts

    Before moving to the University of Colorado in 2014, he completes postdoctoral work at the University of Helsinki as a Marie Curie Fellow and serves as an Ikerbasque visiting professor in Computer Science at the University of the Basque Country.

  4. 2014–2024

    Associate professor at Colorado

    In 2014, he moves to the University of Colorado Boulder. He serves as an associate professor of linguistics and a faculty fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Science, then teaches computational linguistics, phonetics, and phonology before his move to New College in 2024.

  5. 2018

    A neural analyzer for Arapaho verbs

    In 2018, he and his coauthors train an encoder-decoder neural model to mimic an existing finite-state morphological grammar for Arapaho verbs. It generalizes to unseen forms with 98.68% accuracy for unambiguous verbs and 92.90% for all verbs.

  6. 2024

    The PyFoma Python toolkit

    In 2024, he and three coauthors publish PyFoma, an open-source Python module for building weighted and unweighted finite-state transducers and automata from regular expressions and string rewriting rules. It includes algorithms for linguistic and NLP applications.

  7. 2026

    Neural induction of transducers

    In 2026, he and coauthors publish a method that constructs unweighted finite-state transducers from the hidden state geometry learned by a recurrent neural network. They evaluate it on morphological inflection, grapheme-to-phoneme prediction, and historical normalization.

  8. As of October 2026

    Associate professor at New College

    He is Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Natural Sciences Division at New College of Florida. His research focuses on machine learning for natural language processing, finite automata, neural models for NLP and their interpretability, and neural models for low-resource learning.

Career

  1. NowNew College of FloridaAssociate Professor of Computer Science
  2. Until 2014University of HelsinkiMarie Curie Fellow
  3. Until 2014University of the Basque CountryVisiting Professor
  4. 2014–2024University of Colorado BoulderAssociate Professor of Linguistics

Education

  1. 2009University of ArizonaPhD

From the biography.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes University of Colorado. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes University of Colorado. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes University of Colorado. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes University of Colorado. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Directory - New College of Florida ncf.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Foma: a Finite-State Compiler and Library - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. foma/foma/README at master · mhulden/foma · GitHub github.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. Mans Hulden - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. Mans Hulden verbs.colorado.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. A Neural Morphological Analyzer for Arapaho Verbs Learned from a Finite State Transducer - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. PyFoma: a Python finite-state compiler module - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  8. Neural Induction of Finite-State Transducers - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 20 October 2026.