Professor Tim W. Finin
Research Professor · Non-Tenure Track
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
College of Engineering and Information Technology
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About
Tim Finin has over 50 years of experience in applying artificial intelligence to problems in information systems and language understanding. His current research is focused on representing and reasoning with knowledge graphs, analyzing and extracting information from text, and enhancing security and privacy in information systems. He is an ACM fellow, a AAAI fellow, an IEEE technical achievement award recipient, and was selected as the UMBC Presidential Research Professor in 2012. He received an S.B. degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has held positions at UMBC, Unisys, the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, and the MIT AI Laboratory. He is currently a Research Professor at UMBC and is the director of the UMBC Center for Artificial Intelligence.Research interests
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, knowledge graph technology, multiagent systems, natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics, knowledge and database systems, applications involving cybersecurity, social media, mobile and pervasive computingTeaching interests
Artificial intelligence, language understanding, knowledge graphs, cybersecurityEducation
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Ph D, Computer Science
— University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (1980) The Semantic Interpretation of Compound Nominals
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MS, Computer Science
— University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (1977) An Interpreter and Compiler for Augmented Transition Networks
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BS, Electrical Engineering
— Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1971) Three Problems in Analyzing Scenes