I am a PhD Candidate in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California. I work in the Natural Language Group at the Information Sciences Institute (NLP@ISI). I am being advised by Prof. Kevin Knight.

My main research interests span various problems and theory related to the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning. I am specifically interested in un-supervised and semi-supervised methods and their applications to NLP problems such as Machine Translation, Name Transliteration, Question Answering, Natural Language Parsing, Information Retrieval in Discourse, etc.

NL Seminar

I was the organizer for the Natural Language Seminar series at ISI. Researchers, faculty, and students from ISI, as well as visiting researchers from other institutions, meet to present ideas, report on interesting experiments, and even give practice talks for upcoming conference meetings. If you are interested in giving a talk or want to check out upcoming talks, please visit the NL seminar website.

* Outstanding Research Assistant Award    (Fall 2008)

    Computer Science Department, University of Southern California

    Annual Information Sciences Institute (ISI) Graduate Research Symposium

    Annual Information Sciences Institute (ISI) Graduate Research Symposium

    Computer Science Department, University of Southern California