Patrick Pantel is currently a Research Assistant Professor and Research Scientist in the Natural Language Group at the USC Information Sciences Institute, Deputy Director of the DHS CKID Center and Director of ISI's Data Catalysis Center where he does research in large-scale natural language processing, ontology learning, text mining, knowledge acquisition, and predictive systems. In 2003, he received a Ph.D. in Computing Science from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.