PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Vincent Ng

Vincent Ng is a computer scientist at the University of Texas at Dallas who works on machine learning for natural language, with coreference resolution among his research topics. After a B.S. in computer science at Carnegie Mellon in 1997, he earned a Ph.D. at Cornell in 2004 and became an assistant professor at UT Dallas in 2004, then a professor in 2017. In 2002 he coauthored a paper on coreference resolution with Claire Cardie, and in 2019 he served as a program co-chair of EMNLP-IJCNLP in Hong Kong. He received ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards at ESEC/FSE in 2019 and at ICSE in 2024, and the Blue Sky Idea Award at AAAI-20 in 2020. He is a professor of computer science at UT Dallas, an Editor-in-Chief of ACL Rolling Review, and director of the Computer Science Computing Scholars program.

Now at
University of Texas at Dallas and ACL Rolling Review
Works
426
Citations
12,578
h-index
46
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1997–2004

    From Carnegie Mellon to Cornell

    He earns a B.S. in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in 1997 and a Ph.D. in computer science at Cornell University in 2004. His doctoral ancestry begins with Claire Cardie (1994), followed by Wendy Lehnert (1977) and Roger Schank (1969).

  2. 2002

    A coreference resolution paper

    In 2002, he coauthors "Improving Machine Learning Approaches to Coreference Resolution" with Claire Cardie, published in the proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in Philadelphia.

  3. 2004–2017

    From assistant to full professor

    He joins UT Dallas's Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science as an assistant professor in 2004, becomes an associate professor in 2011, and a professor in 2017. His research area is machine learning of natural language, and his group works on automated essay scoring, AI for law, AI for software engineering, opinion and argumentation mining, and anaphora and coreference resolution.

  4. 2018–2019

    Program co-chair of EMNLP-IJCNLP

    He is a program co-chair of NLPCC 2018. In 2019, he is a program co-chair of EMNLP-IJCNLP in Hong Kong, together with Jing Jiang and Xiaojun Wan.

  5. 2019–2020

    Software and AI paper awards

    In 2019, he works with Andrian Marcus on a tool that gives users feedback on the quality of their bug reports, and the work wins an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ESEC/FSE. In 2020, he receives the AAAI-20 Blue Sky Idea Award from the Computing Community Consortium, and publishes 'Unveiling Hidden Intentions' with Gerardo Ocampo Diaz in the Blue Sky Papers of AAAI-20, proposing the task of hidden message and intention identification.

  6. 2023

    Editor-in-Chief of ACL Rolling Review

    In 2023, he becomes an Editor-in-Chief of ACL Rolling Review. He is also an associate editor of the journal Artificial Intelligence from 2021 and an action editor of Transactions of the ACL from 2020.

  7. 2024

    An ICSE distinguished paper

    At ICSE in 2024, he receives an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, the same award he received at ESEC/FSE in 2019.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor and honors program director

    He is a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Dallas and is affiliated with its Human Language Technology Research Institute. In 2022, he becomes director of the Computer Science Computing Scholars (CS2) program, and he remains an Editor-in-Chief of ACL Rolling Review.

Career

  1. Since 2023ACL Rolling ReviewEditor-in-Chief
  2. Since 2004University of Texas at DallasAssistant Professor, Associate Professor
  3. 1991–2004Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Education

  1. 2004Cornell UniversityPh.D. in computer science
  2. 1997Carnegie Mellon UniversityB.S. in computer science

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

  1. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes University of Texas at Dallas. 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.
  2. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes University of Texas at Dallas. 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.
  3. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 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.
  4. 11% of AI doctorate holders from 2010 to 2016 founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduationIncludes Cornell University. We estimate how often AI doctorate holders founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduation, how waiting times compare between founders and top jobs, and which universities trained the most.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Vincent Ng - UT Dallas Profiles profiles.utdallas.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Vincent Ng personal.utdallas.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Improving Machine Learning Approaches to Coreference Resolution - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 | ACL Member Portal aclweb.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. Drs. Andrian Marcus and Vincent Ng Create Automated System for Improving Computer Bug Reports - Computer Science | The University of Texas at Dallas cs.utdallas.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. Unveiling Hidden Intentions | Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ojs.aaai.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. ARR Team – ACL Rolling Review aclrollingreview.org. Checked 20 October 2026.