Experience

2/95 —12/98

Research scientist, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. Technical lead for research in robust statistical parsing and related empirical natural language processing. Co-responsible for theoretical choices, solely responsible for all design and development of parsers, statistical routines, graphical interfaces, etc. Co-author for proposal and review reports, tech lead at project meetings. Some teaching duties.

8/89 —9/94

Teaching/Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI. Research responsibilities included primary design, development, and maintenance of statistical text processing packages in C++. Shared responsibilities for direction of research, and the design and execution of experiments.

1/90 —6/93

Consultant C++ Instructor for Semaphore Training, Andover, MA. Periodic teaching of an intensive C++ course for corporate clients.

11/89 —4/91

C++ Consultant for Realize, Inc, Providence, RI. Work included rescue programming for $30M telecommunications project and development of course material for industrial C++ course mentioned above.

8/87 —8/89

Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI. Assisted in instruction, development of assignments, evaluation of course materials, and grading.

8/83 —8/87

Systems Programmer, Locus Computing Corporation Los Angeles, CA. Part of a start-up team developing an advanced distributed Unix. Work included design, development, and maintenance of applications and kernel modules.

Skills

Design and development in C/C++, Tcl/Tk, perl, HTML

Robust parsing, morphological analysis, part-of-speech tagging, and related areas of applied natural language processing

Application of machine learning and statistical methods

Degrees

Oct 1994

Ph.D. Computer Science, Brown University. Dissertation: Learning probabilistic grammars from tagged text. Elected to Sigma Xi, University Fellowship.

May 1989

Sc.M. Computer Science, Brown University. Thesis: A Probabilistic Analysis of Marker-Passing Techniques for Plan Recognition.

May 1986

B.Sc. Math/Computer Science and Philosophy, UCLA. Honors and awards: Summa cum laude, College Honors, Honors in Computer Science, Honors in Philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa, Dean's list, Phi Eta Sigma.