Val Spitkovsky, PhD

1999 Hertz Fellow
Valentin Spitkovsky
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Val completed his PhD in computational linguistics, a research field at the intersection of language and machine learning, at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His focus has been primarily on unsupervised parsing and grammar induction, advised by Professor Dan Jurafsky of the Natural Language Processing Group at Stanford University. Val has worked at Google Inc. since 2001 on various aspects of its advertising system, scalable spam-fighting, and statistical machine translation. He earned three SB degrees from MIT in mathematics, economics, computer science and engineering; and three master’s degrees in electrical engineering and computer science, statistics, and computer science.

“I’m grateful to the Hertz Foundation for support during my PhD and for the collaborations with Hertz fellows early on in my career.”
– Valentin Spitkovsky

Graduate Studies

Stanford University
Computer Science
Grammar Induction and Parsing with Dependency-and-Boundary Models

Undergraduate Studies

Massachusetts Institute of Technology