I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of San Francisco and I am co-director of the MAGICS Research Lab.

Teaching

I am on sabbatical in the 2024-2025 academic year. I am not teaching courses until Fall semester 2025. Previous courses and more…

Research

My research interests are in Natural Language Processing (NLP), specifically what language can tell us about a person or her culture. Because NLP often uses data and machine learning, I publish a little in that area as well. More…

Future (Graduate) Students

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