BIO

Jonathan K. Kummerfeld is a Senior Lecturer (ie., research tenure-track Assistant Professor) in the School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney and collaborates with a range of academics across the world, including on US DARPA-funded projects on AI agents that communicate. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, and was previously a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan, a visiting scholar at Harvard, and a DECRA fellow, at Sydney (2023-2025).

 

Jonathan’s research focuses on interactions between people and NLP systems, developing more effective algorithms, workflows, and systems for collaboration. He has been on the program committee for over 50 conferences and workshops, as the CTO for ACL Rolling Review (a peer review system), and as a standing reviewer for the Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics journal and the Computational Linguistics journal.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY APPOINTMENTS

  • Senior Lecturer
    The University of Sydney, School of Computer Science, Sydney, AustraliaJul 2022 - present

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Doctorate of Philosophy (Computer Science)
    University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United StatesAug 2010 - Aug 2016
  • Bachelor of Science (Advanced) (Honours) with Medal in Computer Science
    The University of Sydney, Sydney, AustraliaMar 2006 - Nov 2009

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review

SCHOOL

  • School of Computer Science

AVAILABILITY

  • Conference as a panellist or speaker
  • Industry projects
  • Membership of an advisory committee
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision

AVAILABLE FOR MEDIA

  • Academics can be contacted directly or via media.office@sydney.edu.au

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)