I am finishing my PhD this Fall and on the job market!

I am a fourth year PhD student in Computer Science at The University of Colorado, Boulder, working under the supervision of Katharina von der Wense in the NALA lab. Previously, I worked on NLP research as a research scientist at Pearson, and before that I was a researcher at the US Army Research laboratory. I have also worked as a software engineer at several companies.

Research Interests

My PhD has focused on NLP systems geared towards underrepresented languages and computational morphology. This often entails using unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods, and training deep learning models on very sparse datasets. Currently, I am focused on two things:

• Using reinforcement learning to align unsupervised training data with particular supervised tasks
• How better tokenization can enable multilingual LMs to perform well for underrepresented languages.

I additionally maintain open-source research software (Yoyodyne) for deep learning experiments geared towards the computational morphology and phonology communities with Kyle Gorman and Travis Bartley.