Halfie Haftoyreh

Amazon Professor of Machine Learning

Reflections on a new honor.

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Noah Smith
Jul 04, 2021
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Starting July 1, I hold the job title “Amazon Professor of Machine Learning.”

In case you’re not an academic, let me explain. This roughly translates into a message sent by my employer that they would prefer for me to stay at the university. I get a fancier title than “Professor” and enough extra money in my research fund to buy another nice computer…

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