By training and passion, I am a quantitative and computational linguist. I wrestle with language problems found in empirical data, understand them with mathematical and computational models, and make practical use of that in real-world applications. My MA studies and work experience have included standard natural language processing tasks such as corpus building, sentiment analysis, information extraction and discourse modeling, while my PhD studies focused on probabilistic models of language variation, qualitative description of the sound systems of low-resource languages, and statistical modeling of speech acoustics.

Now I am an NLP Engineer at Cisco Systems, developing conversational interfaces.