About

I'm a linguist and NLP engineer based in Berlin, Germany, originally hailing from the US. I recently transitioned from an academic research career in theoretical, experimental, and mathematical linguistics to an industry career in data science and natural language processing (NLP). I'm now working as an Applied NLP Engineer at deepset, a startup that does exciting, open-source work in NLP, with particular emphasis on question-answering and search. 

Before transitioning into NLP my previous position was as a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz-Center for General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin, where I worked for over three years as part of the project DP-Border. I earned my PhD in linguistics from Stony Brook University in 2018, specializing in semantics and its interfaces with syntax and pragmatics. My dissertation, The Mereology of Attitudes, was advised by Richard Larson. My academic research covers such diverse topics as attitudes, modals, events, mereology, measurement, scope, and co-linguistic content (e.g., gestures); for more information, see the research section of this site. My Google Scholar profile can be seen here.

Outside of work, my primary hobby is music. I studied composition and jazz piano performance at Williams College, and was working toward a music career before going to grad school. The music section of this site includes some samples of my work as a pianist, composer, and singer-songwriter. I’m also a diehard fan of American football (go Ravens!) and chess. My pronouns are he, him, his.