Dan Roth
Dan Roth is the Chief AI Scientist at Oracle.
Prior, Dan was a VP & Distinguished Scientist at AWS AI. In his role at AWS Dan led over the last three years the scientific effort behind the first-generation generative AI products from AWS, including Titan Models, Amazon Q efforts, and Bedrock, from inception until they became generally available.
Danis the Eduardo D. Glandt Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania. He was a Founder Professor of Engineering at the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with positions at the Beckman Institute, the Statistics, Linguistics and ECE Departments and at the graduate School of Library and Information Science.
Dan is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), for his contributions to machine learning and to natural language processing.
Dan was awarded the John McCarthy Award; he was recognized for “for major conceptual and theoretical advances in the modeling of natural language understanding, machine learning, and reasoning.” He has published broadly in natural language processing, machine learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, and learning theory, was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal ofArtificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and has served as a Program Chair and Conference Chair for the major conferences in his research areas.
Dan has been involved in several startups; most recently he was a co-founder and chief scientist of NexLP, a startup that leverages the latest advances in Natural language processing, cognitive analytics, and machine learning in the legal and compliance domains (NexLP was acquired by Reveal).
Dan holds a B.A. Summa cum laude in Mathematics from the Technion, Israel and Ph.D in Computer Science from Harvard University.