Principal Development Lead at Microsoft
San Francisco Bay Area
Principal Development Lead at Microsoft
San Francisco Bay Area
Research management in computational linguistics
Integration of NLP research into real world applications such as:
search, question answering, redaction, entity and relation extraction
Computational linguistics/Natural language processing
Exploiting "deep" processing representations and techniques for improved NLP
Multilingual natural language processing for applications
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
October 2008 — Present (10 months)
Management of the Natural Language Engineering team at Powerset / Live Search
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
2004 — Present (5 years)
Symbolic Systems Program
teach grammar engineering at undergrad and grad level
supervise SSP interns at PARC
supervise students in computational linguistics
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; XRX; Computer Software industry)
July 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 3 months)
Manager of NLP research group: establishing research strategy including IP and field-of-use issues, securing internal and external project funding, balancing multiple project goals and deliverables. Technical expertise in grammar engineering.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
1997 — June 2006 (9 years)
Natural language processing and computational linguistics
Focus on grammar engineering
Developed broad-coverage deep English grammar on XLE platform
Parallel Grammar development on XLE of multilingual applications
Interfaces with finite-state technologies and deep semantic processing
(Research industry)
August 1994 — June 1995 (11 months)
Taught linguistics to professors and advanced graduate students.
Taught English to top-tier undergraduates.
Research on Georgian linguistics.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 1993 — May 1994 (10 months)
Research on Georgian (morpho)syntax.
PhD , linguistics , 1988 — 1993
BSc , 1984 — 1988
Exceptional Performance (PARC 2006)
Excellence in Engineering (PARC 2002)
Phi Beta Kappa (MIT 1988)