Christopher D Manning

Christopher D. Manning (born September 18, 1965) is an Australian-American computer scientist and applied linguist renowned for pioneering natural language processing (NLP), including neural network approaches from 2010 and earlier probabilistic methods in computational linguistics.[1][2] He is the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning, Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science at Stanford University, founder of the Stanford NLP Group, and former director of the Stanford AI Lab (2018-2025).[1][2][4] His contributions include the GloVe model, attention mechanisms, and neural machine translation, earning him the IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2024) and multiple ACL Test of Time Awards.[1][2]