Farhan Samir, PhD

I'm an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. I'm part of the DGP Group in the Department of Computer Science. I earned my PhD at the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group at the University of British Columbia . My research there was also supported by NSERC and UBC’s Public Scholars Initiative. I also spent some time at the University of Washington NLP group. I was also a research intern at Ai2 Aristo, NVIDIA, and Amazon’s Lab126 in each summer term of my PhD program.

Right now I'm primarily interested in researching how to sustain knowledge production institutions, like Wikipedia, or local news outlets (e.g., The Tyee, or The Local). Right now, these orgs are not doing too well, and I think that's concerning. But optimistic that research can help!