Mehryar Mohri

Mehryar Mohri is a Professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in New York University and a Researcher at Google. He grew up in Paris, France, graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, received his M.S. degree in mathematics and computer science from Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris in 1989, and his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Paris Denis-Diderot in 1993. He worked for ten years at AT&T Bell Labs (or AT&T Labs - Research), including as a Department Head and a Technology Leader. His primary research areas are machine learning, text and speech processing, theory and algorithms, and computational biology.