I am a PhD candidate in the Stanford Natural Language Processing Group, part of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab. My advisor is Christopher D. Manning. I'm at Microsoft Research for the Fall 2009 quarter, working with Susan Dumais. My research interests include natural language processing, machine learning, information retrieval, and the web.

My undergraduate degrees from MIT (2004) are in Computer Science and Math. Prior to Stanford, I spent some time at IBM's Zurich Research Lab working on data mining. In the summers, I teach Java to Palestinian and Israeli teenagers in Jerusalem through MEET.

Software

Stanford Topic Modeling Toolbox

A suite of topic modeling tools for social scientists and others who wish to perform analysis on datasets that have a substantial textual component.

Scalala

Scalala is a high performance numerical linear algebra library for Scala, with rich Matlab-like operators on vectors and matrices; a library of numerical routines; support for plotting. QuickStart.

ResearchAssistant

ResearchAssistant is a library for improving Java's effectiveness as a platform for creating scientific research tools. It is described in "RA: Research Assistant for the Computational Sciences" published in ExpCS, June 2007.

GCI

GNOME Command Interface, or GCI, is an experimental command-line framework for the GNOME Desktop. It is more than a drop-in replacement for GNOME Terminal + bash. GCI is a programming language for interacting with all elements of the modern desktop environment in a clear, discoverable manner.