For about a decade (nine years and 8 days, actually) I was one of the University of Michigan's webmasters but now I'm a full-time PhD student in Michigan's Department of Linguistics working with Steven Abney and Pam Beddor.
Over the past few terms, I've had the good fortune of working with Dragomir Radev and the CLAIR research group. I hope to be of more use to them in the brave future.
I'm starting my second year of graduate school and still haven't really done any research worth noting. I'm primarily interested in phonetics, phonology, speech synthesis, speech recognition, and statistical machine translation. Basically I'm interested in ways research in phonetics and phonology can improve (and be improved by) computational approaches to language.
Back when I had leisure time I could be found riding my bicycle long distances in outlandish, stretchy garments. I used to play electric guitar and bodhrán in a band of indeterminate genre.
My purple
house is, for an inanimate object, rather
demanding of my time (more so than, say, my aquarium). And I still haven't quite let
go of the old
job where I still do some part-time hacking programming.