Resume

Areas of Expertise
Natural Language Processing
  • Topic modeling (LDA and derivatives)
  • Sentiment classification
  • Document clustering
  • Language modeling
  • Spoken language identification
Machine Learning / Bayesian Methods
  • Graphical models (factorization of joint distribution, selection of priors, sampled hyperparameters)
  • Exact and approximate inference (Gibbs sampling)
  • Metropolis-Hastings sampling
  • Decision theory in Bayesian networks
Data Mining
  • Specializing in text mining
  • Domains:
    • Twitter
    • YouTube
    • Citation networks (OAI2 harvesting, indexing)
    • Congressional record
    • Legislation
    • Political discourse
    • Student ratings
    • Meteorological data
Data Visualization
  • Focus on graph-based visualization of structured data.
    • Topic cooccurrence
    • Named entity networks
    • Dynamic wireless mesh networks
    • YouTube related videos

Education
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah
Master of Science—Computer Science
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Bachelor of Arts—Linguistics
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Employment
Brigham Young University Natural Language Processing Lab
Provo, Utah
Research Assistant
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Teaching Assistant
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Teaching Assistant
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Technologies
Web
  • Django
  • HTML/XHTML/HTML5
  • CSS
  • jQuery
  • REST web services
Build Systems and Process Automation
  • doit
  • CMake
  • make
Languages
  • Java
  • C#
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • C++
  • And a tiny little bit of R