8/94 - 5/04	University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO Ph.D., Department of Computer Science. Awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Competition Honorable Mention.
9/87 - 6/91	Northwestern University, Evanston, IL B.A. with Honors. Double Major: Computer Studies and Psychology. Computer Studies GPA 3.7/4.0, Psychology GPA 3.6/4.0. Participant in Senior Honors Research Program. Dean’s List.

8/96 -5/03	Graduate Research Assistant, University of Colorado at Boulder, Linguistics Department Current research involves integrating a long distant semantic based statistical language model with classic N-gram language models for speech recognition.
6/97 - 8/97	Research Team Member, CLSP Workshop ‘97, Johns Hopkins University, Center for Language and Speech Processing Participated in the dialog modeling research group. Developed dialogue based language model, dialogue prediction model, and tools for linguists to verify agreement for hand tagging of Switchboard corpus.
5/96 - 8/96	Employee, Berdy Medical Systems, Boulder, CO Developed software to track dialogue progress for automated medical transcription system.
5/95 - 8/95	Summer Intern, Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA Developed and experimented with class based language models for LVCSR. Began development of LSA based language model.
5/93 - 8/94	Research Programmer, Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Machine Translation Developed speech to speech translation system involving German and English. Wrote parsing and generation grammars for both languages. Created symbolic, stochastic, and connectionist tools to aid in translation and disambiguation.
2/92 - 5/93	Research Programmer, Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe Germany, Department of Computer Science Same research project as described above. Learned German as well.