I'm currently a Research Fellow for the School of Informatics at HCRC, as well as a part-time PhD student in Linguistics based at CSTR. I have been working on speech and language technology since 1998, and received my B.S. degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.
Research
My research concerns technologies which facilitate, supplement, and understand face-to-face conversation. Most of my previous work has focused on workplace meetings, where my goal has been to apply theoretical principles of pragmatics to do better information extraction. For my degree, I am developing an approach to summarizing conversations in terms of the joint activities of the participants. As a rough guide, my goal is to find useful reasons and effective ways to employ the great ideas about pragmatics and conversation that have yet to see computational or technological application.
Music
I'm also really into making music. If you're in town and you want to play, drop me a line! Currently, it is the Eye of the Duck that calls. Most recently before this, I was playing guitar in Dead Tongues (no definite article), a band made up of Stanford linguists. There, I developed a passion for the Telecaster. I've also been known to play keyboards in a dance band, sing in an a-cappella group, arrange choral music (see also here, and here), appear in people's musical dreams, and write alliterative poetry.