I am a Computer Science researcher primarily in the field of Natural Language Processing. I currently focus on datasets and algorithms using computational and linguistic structures for challenges in understanding across languages and scenarios. My big picture interests could be ambitiously considered universal (“of all the peoples, by all the peoples, and for all the peoples”?) learning and technologies, and this motivates many of my pursuits in teaching, software, writing, and, research.

I am currently a first year PhD student in Computer Science at Georgetown University. I am working with Prof. Nathan Schneider and other NERTlings, and also a member of GUCL. Before this, I was a master’s student at CU Boulder, working with Prof. Katharina von der Wense and the NALA Group.

News

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Languages

Luke Gessler says that “linguists are often asked how many languages they speak” and now that I will be in the company of a bunch of them, so here are mine: Kannada(kan)(native, ~B1 level), Hindi(hin)(intermediate, ~B1 level), English(eng)(professional, ~C1 level), bits and pieces of Spanish(spa)(~17k Duolingo XP). My next language goals are to be able to converse in Spanish and to read Konkani(kok) with Kannada script.

Similarly, if you ask me how many programming languages I can program in, I will say (like I tell my students) “it’s not about the number of programming language(s), it’s about the principles” but then go on to to say I have programmed in many languages: Python (research and tooling), Java (enterprise cloud software), Scala (TAing and side projects, linkedin assessment), C (let’s say structs and pointers), Javascript (up to JQuery, +Angular, Node), Scheme, OCaml (coursework) and Kotlin (graduate software engineering project).

Next Moving Targets: R has priority now over Julia for visualization. More proficiency in OCaml because of Grew.

Publications

Writing

I write technical and non-technical blog articles infrequently, you can find them on my medium site here.

Bookshelf

I like to read (largely fiction) and for better or worse track it on Goodreads. If you are interested you can find my shelves here. If you ever meet me, feel free to ask for a personalized recommendation :).

Bookstores Visited

I try and visit (preferably independent) bookstores when I travel and below are some recommendations, in no particular order.

In Bengaluru, Blossom Book House.

In Boulder, The Bookworm.

In San Jose, Recycle Bookstore.

In San Francisco, City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.

In Seattle, Mercer Street Books.

In Washington DC, Capitol Hill Books.

• Recommended Powell’s in Portland.

In Miami, FL, Books & Books in Coral Gables

• Also recommended Powell’s in Portland.
• The Lynx in Gainsville, FL.

Bookstores Wishlist

If you have been to any of these, feel free to ping me and gush about it :D

• Powell’s in Portland.

• Verbatim Books in San Diego (Instagram recommendation :D)

• The Lynx in Gainsville, FL.

Source

Xiulin Yang’s spiffy site made me move from my old site (archiving in progress…) to this new site built with Rayeren’s acad-homepage. My code is available in Github.