Noted for his contributions to the fields of automatic text translation, information retrieval, and automatic question answering. He is a recipient of the Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence (for his contributions to the field of question answering and his work as an original developer on the Watson project) and the BU Computer Science Distinguished Alumna/Alumnus Award. Eric currently directs the Master of Computational Data Science (MCDS) program. He is also co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at Cognistx, and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for Fairhair.ai.