Mark Steedman - Short biography#
Full CV
(March 30, 2014)
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION:
- University of Sussex, Experimental Psychology, BSc.(hons.), 1968
- University of Edinburgh, Artificial Intelligence, Ph.D., 1973
- University of Edinburgh, Postdoc 1973-1974
- University of Sussex, Postdoc, 1974-1977
APPOINTMENTS:
- Professor of Cognitive Science, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 1998-present
- Professor, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania 1992-1998
- Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania 1988-1992
- Visiting Prof., Dept. of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania 1986-1987
- Reader (Assoc. Prof.), Dept. of AI and Center for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh 1986-1988
- Lecturer (Asst. Prof.), Dept. of AI and Center for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh 1983-1986
- Visiting Fellow, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Texas at Austin 1980-1981
- Lecturer (Asst. Prof.), Dept. of Psychology, University of Warwick 1977-1983
HONORS:
- Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)
- Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
- President, Association for Computational Linguistics (2008).
SELECTED RECENT GRANTS:
- EPSRC: GR/M96889, “Wide Coverage Parsing and Grammar Induction Using CCG”, £159K, 3 years from Oct 2000 (PI, Univ. Edinburgh).
- EU (FET) “Magicster: Embodied Believable Agents,” 406K Euros (Edinburgh Component), 3 years from Dec 2000 (PI, Univ. Edinburgh).
- EU IST Cognitive Systems IP FP6-2004-IST-4-27657 “Paco-Plus: Perception, Action and Cognition through Learning of Object-Action Complexes,” 760K Euros (Edinburgh Component), 4 years from Feb. 2006 (PI, Univ. Edinburgh).
- EU ERC Advanced Fellowship 249520 GRAMPLUS: Grammar-Based Robust Natural Language Processing. 1,910,997.60 Euro, 5 years from 1 June 2010
