Biographical Sketch
Jackie Chi Kit Cheung is an associate professor at McGill University's School of Computer Science. He is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Associate Scientific Co-Director at Mila - Quebec AI Institute. His research focus areas include the evaluation of NLP systems and computational pragmatics. He is motivated by how the structure of the world can be reflected in the structure of language processing systems. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications, and has received best paper awards at top NLP venues such as ACL and COLING. Alumni from his group have taken faculty positions in academia and research positions in top industry labs.
Academic History
| 2021–current | Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University | |
| 2015–2021 | Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University | |
| 2010–2014 | Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto | Advisor: Gerald Penn |
| 2008–2010 | M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto | Advisor: Gerald Penn |
| 2004–2008 | B.Sc. (Honours) in Computer Science, minors in Linguistics and German at the University of British Columbia | Advisor: Giuseppe Carenini |
| Spring 2012 | Internship in the NLP group, Microsoft Research | Mentors: Lucy Vanderwende and Hoifung Poon |
| Summer 2011 | Internship in the Speech Group, Microsoft Research | Mentor: Xiao Li |