Jonathan may biography
Viterbi Faculty Directory
Research Associate Professor of Computer Science
Education
- 2010, Doctoral Degree, Computer Science, University of Southern California
- 2001, Master's Degree, Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
- 2001, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
Biography
Jonathan May received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from USC in 2010. Prior to re-joining USC and the Information Sciences institute in 2014, he was a research scientist at SDL Language Weaver. Jon's research areas include natural language processing, specifically machine translation and semantic parsing, and formal language theory.
Research Summary
Jon's research areas include natural language processing, specifically machine translation and semantic parsing, and formal language theory.
ISI Directory
Jonathan May, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, Principal Scientist
Education
B.S.E., Computer Science Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
M.S.E., Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Southern California
Bio
Jonathan May is a Research Associate Professor at USC and Principal Scientist at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), where he directs the Center for Useful Techniques Enhancing Language Applications Based on Natural And Meaningful Evidence. Dr. May's current research efforts include building empathetic chatbots to curb online toxicity, teaching agents to collaborate and compete in strategic gameplay, and developing interactive knowledge management systems. He was previously involved in multiple leadership positions in ISI’s efforts centered around translation and multilinguality. He has written and spoken about large language models extensively in the public sphere. May is an expert in architecture development for natural language processing, human-machine natural language interaction, computational journalism, machine translation, multilinguality, and transfer learning, with an extensive publication record that includes two outstanding paper awards and one best demo award. He has organized multiple NLP workshops and conferences at various service levels and currently is Treasurer of NAACL, the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. He is also an Amazon Scholar. He received a BSE and MSE from Penn in 2001 and a PhD from USC in 2010.
Jonathan May
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| Birth name | Jonathan Paul May |
| Born | (1958-10-09)October 9, 1958 Eau Claire, Wisconsin |
| Origin | United States |
| Died | February 27, 2010(2010-02-27) (aged 51) Winter Park, Florida |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Conductor, Cellist |
| Instrument | Cello |
Musical artist
Jonathan May (October 9, 1958 – February 27, 2010) was an American cellist and conductor. He resided in the Orlando, Florida area and was noted for founding and directing numerous youth orchestras and music programs throughout the region.
Early life
One of seven children, May was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin to Walter and Eleanor May, each an accomplished musician and teacher. At the age of four, the family moved to Fairport, New York where Jonathan would learn to play the cello at a young age. He was a student of Lynn Richmond and played in the Rochester Youth Symphony. When Jonathan was in high school, the family moved, to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He earned a bachelor's degree at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, where his father was chairman of the music department. During this time, he met his future wife, Maureen Getting, also an accomplished cellist and student of his mother. Jonathan received his master's degree at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, where he and Maureen would begin a lifelong pursuit of teaching music that would take them across the country.
Career
The May family moved to Central Florida in the early 1990s, where Jonathan would join the faculty of Stetson University in DeLand. As his reputation as a music teacher in the region grew, he was made Artistic Director of the Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra in 1994. When May assumed artistic control of the 90-piece youth orchestra, it consisted of two orchestras of students representing 45 schools from eight counties in Central Florida; just three years later the orchestra grew to ov
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