Chris Irwin Davis


I am a computer science researcher and a technology management professional with over 15 years of industry experience in the Fortune 500 enterprise.

I am currently an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas. I earned my Ph.D. from UT Dallas. I did my graduate research at the Human Language Technology Research Institute in the Department of Computer Science. My research advisor was Dr. Dan Moldovan.

I currently hold a seat on the UTD Faculty Senate (2023-2024 Term)




Email: chrisirwindavis@utdallas.edu
Phone: (972) 883-3574
Office: ECSS 4.603
Mail: 800 West Campbell Road, Mailstop EC31, Richardson, TX 75080-3021


Teaching

Spring 2024 Courses

  • Undergraduate
    • CS-4337 Programming Languaguage Paradigms
    • CS-4337 Programming Languaguage Paradigms (Honors)
    • CS-4384 Automata Theory
  • Graduate
    • SE-6301 Natural Langauge Processing (NLP) and AI

Courses Previously Taught

  • Undergraduate
    • CS-1336 Programming Fundamentals
    • CS-1337 Computer Science I
    • CS-2305 Discrete Math I
    • CS-3305 Discrete Math II
    • CS-4337 Programming Language Paradigms
    • CS-4347 Database Systems
    • CS-4384 Automata Theory
    • CS-4395 Human Language Technology (Naturual Language Processing)
    • CS-4395 Human Language Technology
  • Graduate
    • SE-6301 Natural Langauge Processing (NLP) and AI
    • CS-6360 Database Design
    • CS-6364 Artificial Intelligence


Research Interests


Publications

  • Chris Irwin Davis. 2012. Tajik-Farsi Persian Transliteration Using Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2012. Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Chris Irwin Davis. 2011. A Framework for Representing Event Semantics in Modern Persian. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Texas at Dallas.
  • Chris Irwin Davis. 2010. A Framework for Representing Event Semantics of Verb Word Senses. In Proceedings of Interdisciplinary Workshop on Verbs 2010. Pisa, Italy.
  • Chris Irwin Davis and Dan Moldovan. 2010. Feasibility of Boostrapping a Persian WordNet. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2010. Valletta, Malta.
  • M. Olteanu, C. Davis, I. Volosen, and D. Moldovan. 2006. Phramer - an open source statistical phrase-based translator. In Proceedings on the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, pages 146-149, New York City, June 2006. Association for Computational Linguistics. [pdf]