I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Queens College of The City University of New York (CUNY). I am also a member of the faculty of the Doctoral Program in Computer Science and the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the Graduate Center of CUNY.
My research is at the intersection of several areas of computer science and linguistics: assistive technology for people with disabilities, natural language processing, automatic text readability detection, virtual human animation, and the computational linguistics of American Sign Language. I'm the director of the Linguistic and Assistive Technologies Laboratory (LATLab) at CUNY. I am also a member of the "NLP at CUNY" computational linguistics research community.
This website contains information about my Research and details about my background and experience (Curriculum Vitae). Information about courses I teach is available on the Teaching page, and links to other resources appear on the Interests page. A listing of my office hours and other Contact Information is also included on this site.
News
I'm organizing the Doctoral Consortium at the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010) in Orlando, Florida, this October. If you're a PhD student conducting research in computer science on a topic related to accessibility or assistive technology for people with disabilities, you should apply!