I’m an associate research professor at Johns Hopkins University and Director of Digital Humanities, with primary appointment in the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute. I also hold secondary appointments in the Department of Computer Science, where I’m affiliated with the Center for Language and Speech Processing, and the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence.

I focus on how machine learning, particularly deep neural architectures, can assist, inform, and guide scholarship in humanistic fields such as literature, history, and archaeology.

Before coming to Hopkins I was research faculty at Columbia University in the Center for Computational Learning Systems, and before that, a graduate student in the Computer Lab of the University of Cambridge, and a Gates Scholarship finalist. And to reach way back, I majored in Philosophy and Computer Science at the University of Chicago, after studying English literature for a year at the University of Richmond.

I’ve lived in Baltimore since Fall 2015.