Curriculum vitae


EDUCATION

Stanford University
2006 - Present
Ph.D. Program in Linguistics

2004 - 2006
Visiting researcher (NLP Group, working with Christopher D. Manning)

Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium
2000 - 2002
Advanced Studies in Applied Sciences, Computing Science.
Thesis: (Magna cum laude)
Modalités temporelles et aléthiques pour la traduction d'un fragment de la langue française
(Temporal and mandatory modalities for translating a subset of French).

1998 - 2000
"Licence" in classical Languages and Literatures.
Thesis: (Magna cum laude)
La création lexicale en latin. Tendances actuelles de la recherche
(Lexical word formation in Latin. Current research orientations).

1998 - 2000
Habilitation for teaching at the secondary school.

Facultés Notre-Dame de la Paix à Namur, Belgium
1996 - 1998
Bachelor's degree in classical Languages and Literatures.


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching assistant. 2008. Introduction to Cognitive and Information Sciences (Todd Davies), Linguistics Department, Stanford University.

Teaching assistant. 2007. Introduction to Computational Linguistics (Dan Jurafsky), Linguistics Department, Stanford University.

Teaching assistant. 2001-2004. Discrete mathematics, algorithmics and data structures, Computing Science Department, School of Engineering, UCL (Belgium).

Latin teacher. 2001. Collège Saint-Pierre Uccle, Belgium.


GUEST LECTURES AND INVITED TALKS

Nov. 10, 2008     "Finding contradictions in text". Invited talk at Yahoo!

Nov. 10, 2008     Guest lecturer. "Introduction to Computational Linguistics".
                        Presentation for Introduction to Linguistics.
                        Professors Penelope Eckert and Ivan Sag, Stanford University.

June 4, 2008     Guest lecturer. "Introduction to Computational Linguistics".
                        Presentation for Introduction to Linguistics.
                        Asya Pereltsvaig, Stanford University.


AWARDS

2009   Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship

2004   Fellowship for Research in the U.S.A. Belgian American Educational Foundation

2004   Fulbright Scholarship. Commission For Educational Exchange


SERVICE

2009-2010     Stanford Linguistics Graduate Curriculum Review

2008-2009     Stanford Linguistics Graduate Curriculum Review
                    Child Language Language Forum (CLRF) 2009 Organizing Committee
                    Reviewer, EMNLP

2007-2008     Stanford Linguistics Colloquium Committee
                    Reviewer, EMNLP

2006-2007     Stanford Linguistics Department Social Committee
                    Stanford Linguistics Department Annual QP Fest Organizing
                    Committee


LANGUAGES

French
English
Dutch (Deelcertificaat Nederlands als Vreemde Taal)