My Ph.D. is in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, and I also hold a M.Sc. degree in computer science (also from CMU) and a B.Sc. degree in mathematics and physics from Tel-Aviv University in Israel. My main areas of interest are speech and language technologies, including speech recognition, spoken language systems, and human-machine speech interfaces. Most of my work until recently has been in quantitative modeling of natural language using techniques from statistics, information theory, artificial intelligence (especially machine learning) and linguistics.

From 1997 through 1999 I represented the School of Computer Science on the MSCF program steering committee. In that capacity I helped design the computer science and information technology component of the curriculum, and oversaw its execution. As part of this curriculum, I also taught the 'Machine Learning for Finance' course. Starting in 2000 I am representing the School of Computer Science on the Research Council for the Center for Computational Finance.