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August 3, 2006
University of Minnesota Computer Science and Engineering assistant professor William Schuler has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the nation's highest honor for professionals beginning their independent research and education careers. Schuler was honored recently in a ceremony at the White House.
Schuler is among 20 young scientists and engineers whose work is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), one of nine federal departments and agencies that annually nominate individuals for this prestigious award.
Schuler integrates word-recognition and semantic interpretation into a unified model for natural language dialogue between people and computers. He is also building bridges between human language processing and fields such as computer vision, robotics, and medicine. His students receive hands-on experience with a processing system for human language, which could be used for tasks such as getting information from a medical database over the telephone or commanding a team of robots.
The Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers was established in 1996 to honor the most promising researchers in the nation within their fields. Participating agencies award recipients up to five years of funding to further their research in support of critical government missions.
Schuler is the second faculty member in Computer Science and Engineering to be awarded a PECASE. Victoria Interrante, an associate professor, was also a PECASE recipient.
For more information see "Two young faculty take it from the top" and the White House news release.
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