# William Cohen ![[50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/2026-05-04 William Cohen.jpg|400]] American computer scientist and ML researcher. Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Machine Learning Department and former Principal Scientist at Google Research. Core contributions in information extraction, text mining, knowledge representation, and learning over structured and graph data. Co-advised a number of influential ML researchers during their PhDs at CMU, including [[Yang Zhilin]] (Moonshot AI, XLNet / Transformer-XL co-author). Long-time fellow of the AAAI. ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[William Cohen]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/book AND [[William Cohen]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## References - Personal site: https://wwcohen.com/ - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W._Cohen - Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l3nQ-t8AAAAJ ## Related - [[Yang Zhilin]] - [[Large Language Models (LLMs)]] - [[Artificial Intelligence (AI)]]