Ryan Cotterell, a PhD student in the Johns Hopkins Department of Computer Science, is among the 17 students selected as 2018 Facebook Fellows from a pool of 800 applications. The Facebook Fellowship Program and Emerging Scholar Awards are designed to encourage and support promising doctoral students who are engaged in innovative and relevant research in areas related to computer science and engineering. Winners of the Fellowship will receive two years of tuition and fees paid, a stipend of $37,000 each year, and up to $5,000 in conference travel support.
Ryan Cotterell
Affiliated with the Center for Language and Speech Processing, Cotterell is co-advised by Professors Jason Eisner and David Yarowsky. Cotterell specializes in natural language processing, computational linguistics, and machine learning, with a focus on deep learning and statistical approaches to phonology, morphology, linguistic typology, and low-resource languages. He received Best Paper Awards at the Annual Meetings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and European Chapter of the ACL in 2017, and honorable mentions at the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 2016 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL.