Curriculum Vitae

Education

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Ph.D., Linguistics
2012
  • Thesis: Morphological Inference from Bitext for Resource-Poor Languages
  • QRP: Computational Approaches to Sound Change and Reconstruction
  • Advisor: Associate Professor Steven Abney
  • Area of Study: Computational Linguistics
B.S.E., Electrical Engineering
2003
  • Magna cum Laude
  • Member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu
B.A., Classical Languages and Literature
2003
  • With Distinction

Teaching Experience

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
(Student evaluations and other materials available upon request)

Instructor for Linguistics 111: Introduction to Language
Summer 2008
  • Topics: survey of linguistic subfields
  • Duties: all aspects of course design and execution
Instructor for English 125: College Writing
Fall 2007
  • Topics: English composition, using themes of language and technology
  • Duties: all aspects of course design and execution
Teaching Assistant for Linguistics 111: Introduction to Language
2006, 07, 09, 10
  • Topics: survey of linguistics subfields
  • Duties: office hours; discussion sections; grading assignments and exams
  • Gave guest lectures on morphology and computational linguistics (2010).
  • Created a web-based interface for student fieldwork assignments.
Teaching Assistant for English 305: Introduction to Modern English
Winter 2008
  • Topics: formal English linguistics; history of English; regional variation
  • Duties: office hours; discussion sections; grading papers
Teaching Assistant for Linguistics 210: Introduction Linguistic Analysis
Fall 2008
  • Topics: Formal phonology, morphology, syntax; analyzing data sets
  • Duties: office hours; discussion sections; design and grade homework
Grader for EECS 470: Computer Architecture
Winter 2004

Presentations and Publications

Automatic Extraction of Linguistic Data from Digitized Documents
February 2013
BALLGAME: A Corpus for Computational Semantics
January 2011
  • Poster and short paper at IWCS 2011, Oxford UK. With Ezra Keshet and Stephen Tyndall
The Linguistics GSI Wiki
April 2009
  • Presented at the CRLT annual lunch on GSI training. With Robin Queen.
Probabilistic Comparative Linguistic Reconstruction
December 2008
  • University of Michigan Linguistics Colloquium
See my research page for unpublished work in progress.

Grants and Fellowships

Google Digital Humanities Research Award
2011
  • With Steven Abney
FLAS Fellowship (Arabic)
2005-06

Departmental Service

Graduate Student Mentor
2009
  • Created a departmental wiki for sharing teaching materials
  • Co-taught the departmental GSI training course (with Robin Queen)
Graduate Admissions Committee
2008
Departmental Newsletter Committee
2007
Website Committee
2006, 09, 10