Please join us in celebrating the wonderful news that Professor Brian Dillon has been selected as one of this year’s three recipients of the prestigious Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship Awards.

In addition to being specially recognized for the excellence of his research, Professor Dillon will receive a one-year release from all teaching and service duties. This will allow him to devote his creative energies to an exciting research project with Tal Linzen (NYU), investigating and deepening our understanding of how Large Language Models differ from humans in how they resolve syntactic and semantic ambiguity.

In his selection for the Conti Fellowship, Professor Dillon joins the ranks of previous illustrious Conti Fellows in our department, such as Lisa Green (2017), Peggy Speas (2006), Angelika Kratzer (1999), John McCarthy (1997), Lyn Frazier (1993), Lisa Selkirk (1991), Tom Roeper (1989), Emmon Bach (1982), and Barbara Partee, who was among the very first Conti Fellows in 1981.

Congratulations, Brian!