Curriculum Vitae
Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Ph.D., Linguistics2012
- 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 Engineering2003
- Magna cum Laude
- Member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu
B.A., Classical Languages and Literature2003
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
Grants and Fellowships
Google Digital Humanities Research Award
2011
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