Current Position

Assistant Research Scientist Johns Hopkins Department of Computer Science

I am a member of the Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute and an affiliate of the Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing.

Lecturer Johns Hopkins Center for Digital Humanities

I teach courses on the design and implementation of humanities machine learning experiments. I also perform and direct research at the intersection of humanities topics and natural language processing.

Education

Ph.D. in English Literature University of California-Los Angeles

Dissertation: Speech as Writing: Literary Dialect Orthography in the United States 1790- 1930

B.A. in English University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Highest Honors

Publications And Presentations

1. Publication: "Transferring Extreme Subword Style Using Ngram Model-Based Logit Scaling" NLP4DH 2025 @ NAACL
2. Publication: "Examining Language Modeling Assumptions Using an Annotated Literary Dialect Corpus" NLP4DH 2024 @ EMNLP doi: 10.18653/v1/2024.nlp4dh-1.32
3. Presentation: “LLMs and Nonstandard Orthography” Society for the History of the English Language (SHEL)-13
4. Presentation: “Towards Automatic Alignment of Literary Orthographic Variants” Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations DH Conference 2024
5. Publication: “Pairing Orthographically Variant Literary Words to Standard Equivalents Using Neural Edit Distance Models” LaTech-CFL 2024 @ EACL doi: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.15068
6. Presentation: “How well do Pretrained LLMs handle variant literary orthography?” New Directions in Text as Data (TADA) 2023
7. Presentation: “Towards a History of Variant Literary Orthography: BERT-based Normalization of 19th Century Spelling” Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) 2023
8. Presentation: with Sam Backer, “Blackface and Romance: Computing Cultural Change in 19th Century Sheet Music” American History Association (AHA) 2024

Leadership and Affiliations

Member: Johns Hopkins University Data Science and AI Institute (DSAI) 2024-

Affiliate: Johns Hopkins University Center for Language and Speech Processing 2024-

Liaison Representative: ACL Special Interest Group on Language Sciences for the Socio-Economic Scieces and the Humanities (SIGHUM) 2024-2026

Co-facilitator: Johns Hopkins University Digital Humanities Workshop 2024-

Service

Program Committee member: NLP4DH Conference 2024-

Program Committee member: SIGHUM LaTeCH-CLfl Workshop 2024-

Reviewer: ACL Rolling Review 2024-

Reviewer: LaTeCH-CLfL-2024 2024

Reviewer: 8th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP 2023

Grass Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow 2024-2025

UCLA Department of English Dissertation Fellowship 2019-2022