Regina Barzilay

Regina Barzilay
רגינה ברזילאי
Born	1970 (age 54–55) Chișinău, Moldova
Nationality	Israeli
Alma mater	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BSc, MSc) Columbia University (PhD)
Awards	AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity (2021) AAAI Fellow (2018) National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2005) TR35 MacArthur Fellowship (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science Natural language processing
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weizmann Institute of Science
Thesis	Information Fusion for Multidocument. Summarization: Paraphrasing and Generation (2003)
Doctoral advisor	Kathleen McKeown

Website	people.csail.mit.edu/regina/

Regina Barzilay (Hebrew: רגינה ברזילאי; born 1970) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a faculty lead for artificial intelligence at the MIT Jameel Clinic. Her research interests are in natural language processing and applications of deep learning to chemistry and oncology.