Michael J. Collins (born 4 March 1970) is a researcher in the field of computational linguistics.

He is the Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.

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.

[2] 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.