Wlodek Zadrozny

Education: Ph.D. in Mathematics, Polish Academy of Science

Courses Taught: Big Data Analytics for Competitive Advantage DSBA 6100, Modern Data Science Systems DSBA 6345

Biography:

Dr. Wlodek Zadrozny joined the faculty of UNC Charlotte from the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. As a scientist at IBM Research, he contributed to a wide range of projects including semantic search applications, natural language dialogue systems/chatbots applied in banking and web sales, and the IBM Watson Jeopardy! project. Dr. Zadrozny has published about a hundred refereed papers, mostly on aspects of natural language processing, and authored about sixty patents. He is also a recipient of the A. von Humboldt Fellowship, the M. Waclawek Prize, and the AAAI Feigenbaum Prize. His research focuses on natural language understanding and its applications.