Hello and welcome to my page at the University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science. I'm currently a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science; I graduated with an M.Sc. in Computing Science and a B.Sc. with Distcintion in Computer Engineering, both from the University of Alberta.
This site is intended to be my academic page, describing my research, academic software projects, etc., functioning more or less as a CV spread over a web site. There is also a proper PDF CV available here, though that one is optimized for online use (Turingified email, etc.); contact me directly for one more suited for hardcopies, etc. Contact information is provided (sort of) at the right of the page.
My field of interest is computational linguistics (CL), also called natural language processing (NLP), which some would consider a sub-field of artificial intelligence (AI). I've conducted research on cognate identification and alignment, machine transliteration, language identification, semantic compositionality, letter-to-phoneme conversion, and incorporating supplemental data; my publications describe these in further detail.
My interests are starting to shift from letters to words, and I'm now working on finding a solid Ph.D. research direction. I'm leaning towards something involving semantics, but don't know exactly what yet! Syntax and morphology are quite interesting too. I've always been interested in understanding meaning (whatever that means), especially in a computational sense, and my M.Sc. thesis work has also increased my interest in machine learning techniques for NLP.
