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I am a PhD student with Prof. Julia Hirschberg at the Speech Processing Lab at Columbia University. My current project involves looking at anomaly detection in the speech domain; in particular, we are investigating hedging and its effect on conversational power structures and other social outcomes of dialogue.

Publications:

• Probabilistic Features for Connecting Eye Gaze to Spoken Language Understanding at ICASSP 2015
• Eye Gaze for Spoken Language Understanding at SLT 2014
• Hedging and Speaker Commitment at the ES3LOD 2014
• Hedging Annotation Manual

Some of my past projects include:

• Gaze for Spoken Language Understanding
• Accent Classification through Prosodic Means
• Prosodically Informed Speaker Identification
• Social Stratification of /tr/-Affrication (presented at the Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Research Event) [poster]
• Prosodic Disambiguation in Garden Path Sentences
• Dialects of American English: Online Methods of Data Collection
• Acoustics of Vowels in Singing

The list of the papers for my Candidacy Exam can be found here.

I graduated from McGill University in 2009 with a BASc in Computer Science and Linguistics.

My CV is available by request.