James Henderson

Biography

James Henderson is a Chargé de Cours in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Geneva, which is part of the Centre Universitaire d'Informatique. He is co-head of the interdisciplinary research group Computational Learning and Computational Linguistics. He is also a Senior Researcher at the Idiap Research institute, where he heads the Natural Language Understanding group. He is now on the standing reviewing committee for the journal Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), and was previously a member of the Editorial Board for the journal Computational Linguistics. Previously, Dr Henderson was the Principal Scientist of the Parsing and Semantics group at Xerox Research Centre Europe, in Grenoble, which is now Naver Labs Europe. Before that he was a Maître d'Enseignement et de Recherche (MER) in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Geneva. Before returning to Geneva, he was a Research Fellow in the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems at the University of Edinburgh . Prior to that he held the position of Maître-Assistant in the AI Lab in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Geneva. And before that he held the position of Lecturer in the then Department of Computer Science at the University of Exeter, UK. Dr Henderson received his PhD and MSc from the University of Pennsylvania, and his BSc from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

Research Interest

Computational Learning and Computational Linguistics.