Christopher Manning
Christopher Manning is a natural language processing researcher and StanfordStanford UniversityStanford University is a research university in California founded by Leland and Jane Stanford in 1885 and opened in 1891.Open the full entry professor emeritus, a former Stanford AI Lab director and an AIX VenturesAIX VenturesAIX Ventures is an early-stage AI venture firm co-founded by Richard Socher and Shaun Johnson in 2021, combining AI research, entrepreneurial and investment experience.Open the full entry investor. He collaborated with Richard SocherRichard SocherRichard Socher is an AI researcher, entrepreneur and investor. He is co-founder and CEO of Recursive, founder and CEO of You.com, and co-founder and managing partner of AIX Ventures. A Stanford computer science PhD, he contributed to the Stanford Sentiment Treebank and GloVe, founded MetaMind, and served as chief scientist at Salesforce.Open the full entry on recursive neural networks, sentiment analysis and word vectors.
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1989–1994Linguistics education
Manning earned an honors bachelor’s degree at the Australian National University in 1989, studying linguistics, mathematics and computer science, and a Stanford linguistics PhD in 1994 on ergativity, argument structure and grammatical relations.[1]
1994–1999Academic appointments and return to Stanford
He taught at Carnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It grew out of the Carnegie Technical Schools, founded with funding from Andrew Carnegie in 1900, which were renamed the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1912 and took the present name after merging with the Mellon Institute in 1967. The university is known for computer science, robotics, engineering, and the arts, and has campuses in Qatar, Silicon Valley, and Rwanda. As of September 2025, it enrolled 16,582 students. Its current president is Farnam Jahanian. On September 30, 2026, the university announced a $3 billion gift from Ken Griffin and plans to build a new campus in Miami.Open the full entry and the University of Sydney before joining Stanford in 1999 and establishing the Stanford NLP group.[1][2]
1999–2008Textbooks and NLP tools
He co-authored a statistical NLP textbook with Hinrich Schütze and an information-retrieval textbook with Prabhakar Raghavan and Schütze. His work also includes the open-source Stanford CoreNLP and Stanza software.[2]
2013–2014Research with Socher
Manning collaborated with Richard Socher on the Stanford Sentiment Treebank and co-authored GloVe with Jeffrey PenningtonJeffrey PenningtonJeffrey Pennington is a machine learning researcher whose work moved from theoretical particle physics to word representations and deep learning theory. He co-authored GloVe with Richard Socher and Christopher Manning.Open the full entry and Socher.[3][4]
2018–2026Laboratory leadership and emeritus status
Manning directed the Stanford AI Lab from 2018 to 2025. Stanford’s current profile lists him as professor emeritus in linguistics and computer science; he also served as an associate director of Stanford HAI.[5]
2024–2026Recognition and industry research
He received the 2024 IEEE John von Neumann Medal. His 2026 biography also lists investment work at AIX Ventures and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff role at Moonlake AI.[2]
Sources
- Christopher David Manning (opens in a new window)
- Bios for Christopher Manning (opens in a new window)
- Recursive Deep Models for Semantic Compositionality Over a Sentiment Treebank (opens in a new window)
- GloVe: Global Vectors for Word Representation (opens in a new window)
- Christopher Manning’s Profile (opens in a new window)