Research Interests

Generative lexicon, common sense reasoning, dimensionality reduction, machine learning, language acquisition, cognitive modeling, intelligent user interfaces, usability testing, cognitive architectures, learning and memory, cryptography, and non-semantic web ontologies

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Teaching

This 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 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.

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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