Alexander Rush

Alexander “Sasha” Rush is an Associate Professor at Cornell Tech, where he studies natural language processing and machine learning. Sasha received his PhD from MIT supervised by Michael Collins and was a postdoc at Facebook NY under Yann LeCun. His research interest is in deep learning text generation, generative modeling, and structured prediction. His group also supports open-source development, including the OpenNMT machine translation system. His research has received several best paper awards at NLP conferences and an NSF Career award.

Current Research Areas

• Interpretable and controllable natural language generation for data-to-text summary.
• Deep generative models for probabilistic text processing and understanding.
• Efficient algorithms and hardware for speech, translation, and dialogue.
• Visual tools for understanding of neural language models.

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2009-2014. Ph.D, Computer Science.
• Harvard University 2007. B.A., Computer Science.