Before moving back east to NY, I lived in the Bay Area, where I graduated with a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2003. I worked at Stottler Henke Associates, Inc. for two years, where I got a chance to work on some really fun Intelligent Tutoring Systems, like EarthTutor and OMIA. After that, I learned a lot more about NLP and web search by interning with the NLP group at Yahoo! Search Relevance for eight months before starting at Columbia in 2006. I love working on multilingual and non-English NLP projects, even when I don't know the languages, like Czech or Japanese. At Stanford, I brought my French up to speed so I could study in Paris for a semester. I also took some Spanish, and a whole lot of Russian and Russian literature classes. Since coming to Columbia, I've been taking Modern Standard Arabic, which is both much more challenging than Russian and much less practical (since dialects are used in most situations). I enjoy rock climbing, and riding my trusty vespa around the city:
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