David Sontag

Visiting Scientist, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

David Sontag is a Visiting Scientist in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Previously, he was Hermann L. F. von Helmholtz Career Development Professor in the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) and as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). He was also a principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

Prior to joining MIT, Dr. Sontag was an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Data Science at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences from 2011 to 2016, and postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England from 2010 to 2011. Dr. Sontag received the Sprowls award for outstanding doctoral thesis in Computer Science at MIT in 2010, best paper awards at the conferences Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), and Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), faculty awards from Google, Facebook, and Adobe, and a NSF CAREER Award. Dr. Sontag received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.