B.A., Hendrix College

M.S., Emory University

Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder

Spring 2020:

• CS-174 Object Oriented Programming
• CS-471 Human-Computer Interaction
• CS-371W Data Structures and Algorithms

• CS-174 Object Oriented Programming
• CS-477 Artificial Intelligence

Fall 2019:

• CS-174 Object Oriented Programming
• CS-477 Artificial Intelligence

Spring 2019:

• CS-374 Principles of Programming Languages
• CS-371W Data Structures and Algorithms
• CS-174 Object-oriented Programming

Fall 2018:

• Deep Computer Vision and Language
• CS-373 Theory of Computation

Spring 2018:

• CS-174 Object-oriented Programming
• CS-474 Human-Computer Interaction

 Fall 2017:

• CS-173 Introduction to Computer Science
• CS-477 Artificial Intelligence

CV

Much of my recent research has focused on machine learning-based approaches to incremental language processing with applications to simultaneous machine translation and computational psycholinguistics.

I am also interested in Japanese language processing, corpus linguistics, and the implications and ethics of surveillance and AI technologies.

Since I’m at a liberal arts institution, I’m also interested in having conversations about how machine learning can be applied to other areas of inquiry.

Keynote talk at Widening NLP (WiNLP) Workshop 2019 [Video]

Jack Merullo, Luke Yeh, Abram Handler, Alvin Grissom II, Brendan O’Connor, Mohit Iyyer. Investigating Sports Commentator Bias within a Large Corpus of American Football Broadcasts. EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, Hong Kong, China.

Shi Feng, Eric Wallace, Alvin Grissom II, Mohit Iyyer, Pedro Rodriguez, and Jordan Boyd-Graber. Pathologies of Neural Models Make Interpretations Difficult. EMNLP 2018 (24%), Brussels, Belgium. [Video][Interview (Alvin Grissom II)][Interview (Shi Feng)]

Yoshinari Fujinuma and Alvin C. Grissom II. Substring Frequency Features for Segmentation of Japanese Katakana Words with Unlabeled Corpora. IJCNLP 2017, Taipei, Taiwan. (31%)

Alvin C. Grissom II, Naho Orita, and Jordan Boyd-Graber. Incremental Prediction of Sentence-final Verbs. CoNLL 2016, Berlin, Germany. (20%) [Video]

He He, Alvin C. Grissom II, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Hal Daumé III. Syntax-based Reordering for Simultaneous Machine Translation. EMNLP 2015, Lisbon, Protrugal. (24%) [Video] [Slides]

Alvin C. Grissom II, He He, Jordan Boyd-Graber, John Morgan, and Hal Daumé III. Don’t Until the Final Verb Wait: Reinforcement Learning for Simultaneous Machine Translation. EMNLP 2014., Doha, Qatar. (30%) [Video][Slides]