William Gantt Walden

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About

I am a Research Scientist at the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence (HLTCOE) at Johns Hopkins University, where I work broadly on natural language understanding, with particular interests in information extraction (especially relating to events), controllable summarization, and both document-level and cross-document reasoning.

I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Rochester, where I worked with the inimitable Aaron White on various problems in natural language processing (NLP), focusing primarily on document-level information extraction and event understanding.

Previously, I worked as a software engineer at Okta in San Francisco. Before that, I received a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Bowdoin College, where I was advised by Stephen Majercik and Clare Bates Congdon.

Outside of academia, I run sporadically, read eclectically, and try to uphold a Gantt family tradition by conditioning good reflexes into my dog, Remi. I also care about Effective Altruism, and think you should install a heat pump.

Contact

I am always keen to collaborate with smart and motivated researchers. If you are an undergraduate major or graduate student in computer science at JHU who has taken at least one course in NLP and are interested in assisting in research on any of the topics mentioned above, feel free to send me an email describing your own interests and background. My email can be found at the top of my CV (link to the left).