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Research Areas Computational intelligence for the humanities Unsupervised machine learning Computational linguistics Functional programming Philosophy of language

Thomas “Tom” Lippincott is an associate research professor of computer science, the director of the Center for Digital Humanities, an affiliate in the Center for Language and Speech Processing, and a research scientist in the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence. He holds a secondary appointment in the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute.

Lippincott’s research focuses on how machine learning can support and facilitate traditional scholarship in the humanities, particularly the use of unsupervised models structured for interpretability and isomorphism with respect to a domain of interest.

He received his BA in philosophy and computer science from the University of Chicago (2006), MS in computer science from Columbia University (2008), and PhD in computational linguistics from the University of Cambridge (2015).