Skills | Education | Service

SKILLS

MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS

Linear regression & Logistic regression
Decision trees & Random forests
K-means & Hierarchical clustering

DATA VISUALIZATION

Python (matplotlib & seaborn)
R (ggplot2 and ggmap)
Tableau dashboards

LINGUISTIC & CULTURAL COMPETENCIES

English (native)
French (excellent speaking/listening/reading/writing)
Mandarin Chinese (excellent speaking/listening/reading/writing)
Russian (good reading/writing)

Countries lived and worked in: Canada, USA, Australia, Singapore, France, China.
Countries I’ve done fieldwork in: India, Nepal

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EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON

Ph.D. in Linguistics
(September 2013 – June 2019)
Dissertation: “Investigating differential case marking in Sumi, a language of Nagaland, using language documentation and experimental methods”

UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

M.A. in Linguistics
(March 2008 – June 2010)
Thesis: “Sumi tone: A phonological and phonetic description of a Tibeto-Burman language of Nagaland”

B.A. (Honours)
Majors: Linguistics, Russian
Diploma of Modern Languages (French)
(March 2002 – December 2007)
Honours thesis: “Breaking up is hard to do: Teasing apart morphological complexity in Iwaidja and Maung”

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OUTREACH / SERVICE

Service

Glamazon: Vancouver Pride march co-captain (2022)

Alexa Home Productivity Diversity Equity and Inclusion committee member & advocate (2022-2023)

Public talks

“How to construct a language” at Foreign Languages and International Studies (FLIS) Day for high school students at University of Oregon . With Charlotte Vaughn. (4 May 2018; 3 May 2019)

“Vital Voices” fundraiser for GLOSS (Graduate Linguists of Oregon Student Society) (3 May 2018)

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