Michael J. Collins (born March 4, 1970 in London, UK) is a British computer scientist, computational linguist, and researcher in the field of artificial intelligence.^[1] He is the Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, where he has been a professor since January 2011.^[3,4] Collins studied at Cambridge University and the University of Pennsylvania under doctoral advisor Mitch Marcus. Collins worked as a researcher at AT&T Labs between January 1999 and November 2002, and later held the positions of assistant and associate professor at M.I.T.

His research interests are in natural language processing as well as machine learning, and he has made important contributions in statistical parsing, the structured perceptron, and statistical machine learning. In his studies Collins covers a wide range of topics such as parse re-ranking, tree kernels, semi-supervised learning, machine translation and exponentiated gradient algorithms with a general focus on discriminative models and structured prediction. One notable contribution is a state-of-the-art parser for the Penn Wall Street Journal corpus. In 2011, he was named a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics.^[1] As of 11 November 2015, his works have been cited 16,020 times, and he has an h-index of 47.^[2]