Research Interests

Natural language processing, generative lexicon, common sense reasoning, dimensionality reduction, machine learning, language acquisition, cognitive modeling, intelligent user interfaces, usability testing, cognitive architectures, learning and memory, AI in education, interfaces for encouraging creativity, and non-semantic web ontologies.

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Teaching

I'm currently TAing for Algorithms for Computational Linguistics. This past summer I ran seminar on common sense reasoning, natural language processing and machine learning at the MIT Media Lab.

I have TAed for:
At Brandeis: Artificial Intelligence, Topics in Computational Cognitive Science,Theory of Computation, and the Internet and Society
At MIT: Natural Language Processing
In addition, I do volunteer outreach teaching with the Educational Studies Program.

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Personal Interests

I'm interested in hiking and nature, travel, theater, tea, politics, board and card games, teaching, and cooking. I enjoy solving and writing puzzles and am part of the Manic Sages mystery hunt team.

I'm currently part of the Graduate Student Senate and the advisory committee for the Brandeis Office of Global Affairs. I was a member of the planning committee for the 2008 Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts at Brandeis. In the past, I was on the executive committee for graduate student government and have been a senator for many years.

In the past I have been part of many theater productions in a directing, producing, or design capacity, but do not plan to do so again for at least a while. Searching Google will find you more examples than these.

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