Damir Cavar is a Natural Language Processing and AI, and Classical and Quantum Computing scientist
June 2025
Since Fall 2016, I have been an Associate Professor at Indiana University.
Dr.phil. (magna cum laude), University of Potsdam, 2000, Advisors: Prof.Dr. Peter Staudacher and Prof.Dr. Gisbert Fanselow
Since 2024 Fellow of the Center for Quantum Technologies (CQT), an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) including Indiana University, Purdue University, and the University of Notre Dame.
Since 2024 Member of the Quantum Science and Engineering Center (QSEc) at Indiana University.
Since 2023 Core AI Faculty at the Luddy Artificial Intelligence Center at Indiana University.
Since the summer of 2018 Fellow at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR) at Indiana University
Since the summer of 2017 Data Science Faculty in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computation, and Engineering (Luddy School), Indiana University
Since January 2018 Co-founder of Semiring Inc., an AI, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Knowledge Graph company.
Since August 2016 Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics, at Indiana University.
2014-2016 Associate Research Scientist, Computational Linguistics, at Indiana University.
2013-2014 Director of the Institute for Language Information and Technology at Eastern Michigan University.
2011-2014 Assistant and Associate Professor (tenured and left in 2014 for Indiana University), Computational Linguistics, at Eastern Michigan University.
2010-2011 Substituting Professor of Computational Linguistics in the Linguistics Department at the University of Konstanz (Germany), temporary one-year professorship.
2005-2011 Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University in Zadar.
2006-2009 Head of the department for theoretical and computational linguistics at the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics in Zagreb.
2003-2006 Director of the Computational Linguistics Program at Indiana University.
2003-2006 Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics at Indiana University.
2002-2003 Visiting Assistant Professor at Indiana University.
2001-2002 IT Architect, Project Manager, and Researcher in the Research & Innovations group of the IS-STA (Dresdner Bank AG and Allianz AG) in Frankfurt a.M. (Germany).
2000-2001 Researcher (PostDoc) at the Berlin-Brandenburgian Academy of Science, Project DWDS, PI: Prof.Dr. Manfred Bierwisch and Prof.Dr. Wolfgang Klein.
2000 Researcher (PostDoc), Department of Computer Science at the Technical University in Berlin, KIT Group, Project Verbmobil.
1999 Researcher at the University of Potsdam, in the interdisciplinary project “Formale Modelle Kognitiver Komplexität” (Formal Models of Cognitive Complexity), WP PI: Prof.Dr. Gisbert Fanselow.
1998-1999 Researcher, Computer Science at the University in Hamburg, Natural Language Systems Group (NATS), PI: Prof.Dr. Walther von Hahn and Prof.Dr. Wolfgang Menzel, Project Verbmobil.
1994-1998 Researcher, Berlin-Brandenburgian Academy of Science, Project RULE (Rule Learning and Rule Knowledge), PI: Prof.Dr. Jürgen Weissenborn and Prof.Dr. Angela Friederici.
1994-1995 Researcher at the Innovationskolleg and Research Project “Formale Modelle Kognitiver Komplexität” (Formal Models of Cognitive Complexity), University of Potsdam, WP PI: Prof.Dr. Gisbert Fanselow.
Founding member of Semiring Inc., an AI, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning company, specializing in Knowledge Graphs and reasoning.
Member of the External Advisory Board of the Linguistic Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. See note.
Member of the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD)
Member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). (Senior Member status in process)
Member of the Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing (SIGSLAV)