Education
Last updated: October 19, 2008
- University of Michigan
PhD in Linguistics, in progress
- Stanford University/LSA
Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, 2007
- Johns Hopkins University/NAACL
JHU Summer School on Human Language Technology, 2006
- University of Michigan
BA in Linguistics, 1996
Research Interests
Last updated: October 19, 2008
- Phonetics/Phonology
speech perception, speech production, language acquisition & change
- Computational Linguistics
speech synthesis, speech recognition, machine learning
- Psycholinguistics
auditory perception, production
Fellowships & Awards
Last updated: October 19, 2008
- National Science Foundation
Honorable Mention, Graduate Research Fellowship, 2008
- Pre-Candidate Research Grant
Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, 2008
- Linguistic Society of America Summer Fellowship
LSA Linguistic Institute Fellowship, LSA Summer Institute, Stanford University, 2007
- Summer Research Grant
Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan, 2007
- First-Year Fellowship
Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan, 2006 — 2007
- NAACL Summer School Fellowship
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2006
- Non-Traditional Fellowship
Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, 2005 — 2006
Teaching
Last updated: October 19, 2008
- English 125
English Language & Literature, University of Michigan, Fall 2008
- Linguistics 111
Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan, Spring 2008
- Introductory JavaScript
School of Information, University of Michigan, 2006 — 2007
- Web Security
Information Technology Security Services, University of Michigan, 2004 — 2007
- perl, UNIX, etc.
Information Technology Division, University of Michigan, 1997 — 1999
Professional Experience
Last updated: October 19, 2008
- Research Assistant
Professor P.S. Beddor, Michigan Phonetics & Phonology Lab, 2009
- Journal Assistant and Board Member
Language Learning, Blackwell Publishing, 2007
- Research Assistant
Professors P.S. Beddor & A. Coetzee, Michigan Phonetics & Phonology Lab, 2007 — 2008
- Senior Technologist
ITCS — Web Production, University of Michigan, 1997 — 2007
- Network Administrator
School of Education, University of Michigan, 1997 — 1999
- Research Assistant
Department of English Language & Literature, University of Michigan, 1993 — 1994
Presentations
Last updated: February 28, 2009
- CLS 45 Chicago Linguistic Society Meeting
“Lexical Reflexes of the Syllable Contact Law”, April 2009
- MCWOP 14 Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology
“Lexical Reflexes of the Syllable Contact Law”, October 2008
- CUNY Conference On The Syllable
“Allophonic cues to syllabification”, January 2008 (Presented by first author: Andries Coetzee)
- Michigan Computational Linguistics and Phonetics/Phonology Research Groups
“Articulatory Modeling for Concatenative Speech Synthesis”, October 2007
- Michigan Computational Linguistics Research Group
“Using the Statistical Machine Translation Pipeline”, April 2007
- Michigan Linguistics
“Linguistics in the Real World”, panel member, Undergraduate Concentration Fair, Ann Arbor, 2007
- Internet2
Open-Source Web Initial SignOn Packages, Presenter, Enterprise Authentication Workshop, Boulder, 2003
- EduCause
The Quest for Web Single-SignOn, Presenter, Anaheim, 2003
- ApacheCon
Open Source Web Single SignOn, Presenter, Las Vegas, 2003
- Internet2
WebISO Versions and Implementation Strategies, Panel member, San Diego, summer 2004
Service
Last updated: October 19, 2008
- Colloquium Co-Chair
Co-chair of Michigan Linguistics Colloquium Committee, 2007-2009
- Web Programming
Active member of web site oversight and programming committee, 2006 — 2008
- Departmental Newsletter
Contributed review of the Experimental Methods in Optimality Theory (ExPOT) conference. 2006-2007
Memberships
Last updated: October 19, 2008
- LSA
Linguistic Society of America, 2006 — Present
- ACL
Association for Computational Linguistics, 2006 — Present
Selected Software Projects
Last updated: October 19, 2008
- CoSign
Open Source Web Single Sign-On ( co-project lead, developer, outreach )
- Chomskybot
Pseudo-random Sentence Generator and Gentle Mockery Engine
- ldapweb
Web-based LDAP Directory Client
- Emma
Natural Language Question Answering System
- Concorde
Bayesian E-Mail Classification & Filtering
- kpasswd.cgi
Web-based Kerberos password changer