Dr. Amanda Stent

Dr. Amanda Stent is the inaugural director of the Davis Institute for AI at Colby College. Previously, she held positions as the NLP Architect in the Chief Technology Office at Bloomberg; the director of research and principal research scientist at Yahoo; the principal member of technical staff at AT&T Labs — Research; and as associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Rochester and has authored or co-authored over 100 papers on natural language processing and is co-inventor of over 30 patents. She is one of the inaugural editors-in-chief of ACL Rolling Review, a board member of CRA-WP and an ABET program evaluator. She also currently serves on the National Academies Committee studying responsible computing research.