Dr. Christopher Manning: A professor at Stanford, Manning’s contributions to the fields of NLP and computational linguistics are unparalleled. His Stanford NLP Group has developed foundational NLP tools, and his book “Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing” is a definitive resource.

Dr. Yoshua Bengio: While primarily known for deep learning, Bengio’s work in recent years has also significantly impacted the NLP community, especially around the integration of neural networks and NLP tasks.

Dr. Regina Barzilay: A professor at MIT, Dr. Barzilay’s work spans several areas of NLP, including deep learning, healthcare applications, and machine translation. She’s been recognized for her contributions with a MacArthur Fellowship.

Sebastian Ruder: A research scientist at DeepMind, Ruder is known for his NLP blog, which makes deep dives into NLP topics accessible. His work on transfer learning in NLP, particularly with the ULMFiT model, has been significant.

Dr. Jason Eisner: A professor at Johns Hopkins University, Eisner’s work has been pivotal in probabilistic modeling and parsing in NLP. He has contributed widely to the theoretical underpinnings of the field.

Dr. Jacob Eisenstein: Based at Google AI and previously a professor at Georgia Tech, Eisenstein’s work touches upon sociolinguistics and NLP. He’s delved into how language changes over time and space and its implications for machine learning models.

Dr. Ilya Sutskever: As the co-founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI, Sutskever has been at the forefront of several breakthroughs in NLP, most notably the GPT models that have set new standards for large-scale language models.

Dr. Kyunghyun Cho: A professor at NYU and a research scientist at Facebook AI, Dr. Cho has made significant contributions to machine translation and deep learning architectures for NLP.

Dr. Emily Bender: A professor at the University of Washington, Bender’s work emphasizes the ethical considerations in NLP. She consistently promotes the importance of linguistics in NLP models and highlights potential biases and fairness considerations.

Dr. Julia Hirschberg: Pioneering work in computational linguistics and spoken language processing defines Dr. Hirschberg’s career. Based at Columbia University, she’s delved into prosody, dialog systems, and emotional tone in speech.

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