I am currently a fourth-year graduate student at Brandeis University. My advisor is James Pustejovsky. I am also employed at The MITRE Corporation in the Information Technology Center .

My current research is focusing on identifying discourse-level relationships between entities and events in natural language text. To this end, I apply machine learning techniques including classifiers, sequence labeling models and more general statistical relational models.

A list of publications can be found here.

I have developed an open source implementation of Conditional Random Fields, called Carafe, which I use in quite a bit of my work. Carafe also includes a Maximum Entropy (multinomial logistic regression) classifier. The software can be downloaded here.