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.

I am currently a PhD student in Computer Science at Georgetown University. I am advised by Prof. Nathan Schneider. I am a part of NERT and GUCL. Before this, I was a master’s student at CU Boulder, working with Prof. Katharina von der Wense and the NALA Group.

News

• 2025-05 : Very fortunate to close my first academic year at Georgetown CS with the Outstanding TA Award.
• 2025-03 : It was an honor to be nominated for Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award in Georgetown University’s 2025 Graduate Student Awards.
• 2024-11 : I am excited to present our paper “Getting the Most Out of Your Training Data: Exploring Unsupervised Tasks for Morphological Inflection” with Adam Wiemerslage and Katharina von der Wense at NALA at EMNLP 2024.
• 2024-08 : I joined the PhD program Georgetown CS where I will be working with NERT and GUCL.

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), an university course in Spanish(spa)(~A1 level). My next language goals are to be able to converse and read (a specific novel) 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 :).

Some lists

I maintain a few (interesting) non-technical lists for fun! I made them separate sites to make space this page compact.

• Some (research) group names I like
• Some Bookstores I have visited or want to

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.