CV
Education
- B.A. in Cognitive Science, Indiana University, 2015
- B.A. in French, Indiana University, 2015
- M.S. in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, (in progress)
- Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, (in progress)
Publications
Talks
Learning and generalizing phonotactics with recurrent neural networks
Poster at 7th Annual Meeting on Phonology, Stony Brook, New York
Revisiting abstract underlying representations: Evidence from a learning model of probabilistic URs
Talk at The 27th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, United Kingdom
Anatomically oriented Principal Components Analysis of three-dimensional tongue surfaces
Poster at 3rd joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the European Acoustics Association, Boston, Massachusetts
Learning syntactic parameters without triggers by assigning credit and blame
Talk at 55th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, Illinois
Work experience
- Fall 2018: Research Assistant - University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Advisor: Gaja Jarosz
- Wrote Python scripts implementing and testing algorithms for learning phonological hidden structure
- Wrote Java script for plotting learning curves to be included in a publicly available Java application implementing phonological learning algorithms
- Fall 2018: Editor of The Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics
- Collected submissions, assigned reviewers, requested edits, compiled and published proceedings
- Fall 2017: Editor of The Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society
- Created LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates for submissions, collected submissions and requested edits, compiled and published proceedings
- Summer 2016: LINGUIST List research intern
- MATLAB scripting to analyze ultrasound data, including generating and smoothing 3D/4D figures
- Prepared results for publication, see Lulich, Cavar, and Nelson (2017) in Publications
- Spring 2013 - Summer 2017: Research Assistant - Indiana University Phonetics and Phonology Lab
- Wrote Python scripts for data collection, annotation, and analysis
- Ran 3D ultrasound speech production experiments
- Integrated and interpreted ultrasound, audio, and 3D scan data using a custom MATLAB toolkit
Skills
Programming/Scripting:
- Python (proficient)
- R (familiar)
- Java (familiar)
- MATLAB (familiar)
Other:
- French
- LaTeX
- Praat (software)
Graduate Coursework
Cognitive Modeling, Machine Learning, Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing, Algorithms for Data Science, Phonology, Phonetics, Syntax, Semantics