Sameer Singh is a Postdoctoral Researcher (Research Associate) in the Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, working with Carlos Guestrin, Luke Zettlemoyer, and Dan Weld. His research focuses on large-scale and interactive machine learning applied to information extraction and natural language processing. He finished his PhD in Computer Science at University of Massachusetts, Amherst under the supervision of Andrew McCallum. Sameer was one of the founding organizers of the popular NIPS Big Learning and the ICML Inferning workshops, and was also the organizer for the Automated Knowledge-Base Construction (AKBC) workshop in 2013 and 2014. During his PhD, he also interned at Microsoft Research (Cambridge), Google Research, and Yahoo! Labs. Sameer has authored nearly 25 papers in top-tier journals and peer-reviewed conferences in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.