Lecturer
Contact Information
- Office Address: 310 Min H. Kao Building
- Phone: 865-974-0229
- Fax: 865-974-5483
- E-mail: dmartin3@utk.edu
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 2018
- MS in Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 1997
- BS in Computer Science and BA in Education, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 1994
Biography
Dian Martin is a lecturer of electrical engineering and computer science at UT in both the undergraduate and graduate programs. She has over twenty-five years of industry experience in formal research and development, focusing on the areas of text analytics, machine learning, parallel matrix algorithms, applied linear algebra, and information retrieval beginning as a Professional Research Associate for the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and then later as a Research Consultant with Pearson Knowledge Technologies. Dian is a co-founder and CEO of Small Bear Technologies, a research-oriented company formed in 2011, that offers products and services around text analytics and natural language processing. A primary concentration of her work has been the Latent Semantic Analysis model for unstructured text analytics. As a leader in this field, she was an invited speaker at the First European Workshop on LSA in Technology-Enhanced Learning in 2007. Her work has included consultation for both educational research and commercial application of text analytics technology and authorship of several papers and book chapters.
Research
- Text Analytics
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cognitive Science