William W. Cohen
William W. Cohen earned his Rutgers doctorate in 1990 and worked at AT&T research laboratories through 2000. He then worked at Whizbang Labs on web information extraction until May 2002. Cohen worked at CMU from 2002 to 2018 and full-time at Google from May 2018 to March 2024. He later returned to CMU with a part-time Google appointment. His research includes question answering, machine learning for NLP, neuro-symbolic reasoning and statistical relational learning. His shared ISWC 2013 research received a ten-year award in 2023.
- Now at
- Carnegie Mellon University and Rush University
- Works
- 442
- Citations
- 37,472
- h-index
- 79
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1990–2002
Learning and information extraction
William W. Cohen earned his Rutgers doctorate in 1990 and worked at AT&T research laboratories through 2000. He then worked at Whizbang Labs on web information extraction until May 2002.
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2002–2024
CMU and Google research
Cohen worked at CMU from 2002 to 2018 and full-time at Google from May 2018 to March 2024. He later returned to CMU with a part-time Google appointment.
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Research program
Language and logical structure
His research includes question answering, machine learning for NLP, neuro-symbolic reasoning and statistical relational learning. His shared ISWC 2013 research received a ten-year award in 2023.
Sources and credits
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