Kevin Knight

Kevin Knight is a professor of computer science at the University Of Southern California (USC) and a research director and fellow at USC’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI). Knight has taught computer science at USC for more than 25 years, authored over 150 research papers on natural language processing and received several best paper awards. Knight’s research interests include natural language processing, machine translation, automata theory and decipherment. Knight received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University and his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.