School

Degrees

• Enrolling in the Master’s program in Computer Science at Brigham Young University. Expected graduation 2011.
• Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics (minor: Spanish) from Brigham Young University: December 2007.

Assistantships

• Research Assistant for Dr. Eric Ringger in the Natural Language Processing lab: April – December 2007.
  • Reworked experiment build system for Spoken Language Identification project (CMake, Ruby)
  • Developed a generic user interface for feature engineering on classification and identification problems (Java)
• Teaching Assistant for Dr. Alan Manning’s Theoretical Syntax (Linguistics 430) class: September 2006 – April 2007.
  • Assessed students’ syntactic analyses from the perspective of the Minimalist framework.
  • Held regular office hours and review sessions to prepare students for exams.
  • Managed grades, communicated with students, compiled a corpus of graded papers for the professor.
  • Taught occasional lectures in that syntax and semantics classes upon the professor’s absence.

Coursework

• Linguistics and Languages: Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology, Theoretical Syntax, Historical/Comparative Linguistics, and the Linguistics Senior Seminar.
  • Spanish: Third-year grammar, phonetics, Latin American literature and civilization. Studied in the Spanish city of Salamanca in 2007.
  • Russian: 101, 102, and 201
  • Latin: 101
  • ASL: 101
• Computer Science: Data Structures and Algorithms, Introduction to Theory, Advanced Programming Concepts (C++), Statistical Natural Language Processing
• Other Courses that Influenced My Thinking: Economics Principles and Problems, Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts, The Power of Printing, Intensive Writing, and Essentials of Human Nutrition.