Christopher David Manning (born September 18, 1965) is an Australian-American computer scientist and applied linguist specializing in the areas of natural language processing, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Manning is the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning and a professor of Linguistics and Computer Science at Stanford University, and was the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) from 2018 to 2025.
Manning has been described as “the leading researcher in natural language processing”, well known for co-developing GloVe word vectors; the bilinear or multiplicative form of attention, now widely used in artificial neural networks including the transformer; tree-structured recursive neural networks; and approaches to and systems for textual entailment.
