Bio
Dan Roth is the Eduardo D. Glandt Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Chief AI Scientist at Oracle.
Until June 2024 Dan was a VP/Distinguished Scientist at AWS AI where he led the scientific effort behind Amazon’s first-generation GenAI products, including Titan Models, Amazon Q, and Amazon Bedrock.
Dan is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, AAAI, and ACL, and a recipient of the IJCAI John McCarthy Award "for major conceptual and theoretical advances in the modeling of natural language understanding, machine learning, and reasoning." He has published broadly in natural language processing, machine learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, and learning theory, was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and has served as a Program Chair and Conference Chair for the major conferences in his research areas. Roth has been involved in several ML/NLP/GenAI startups in domains that range from legal and compliance to health care.
Dan received his B.A Summa cum laude in Mathematics from the Technion, Israel and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University in 1995.
