I am a research assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley. My research interest is to develop intelligent systems to improve interpersonal communications. My reserach lie at the intersection of statistical natural language processing, machine translation, mobile computing, context-aware and organice computing and virtual world applications.

I am affiliated with the Cylab Mobility Research Center, International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies (interACT), Intelligent Systems Laboratory .

Resume and CV.

Teaching

• New Self-Paced Lab: Rich Interaction in Virtual World (Spring 2010)
• 18799S: Statistical Discovery and Learning (Fall 2009)

Students advised/worked with:

• Nguyen Bach (Ph.D. student, Language Technologies Institute, thesis commitee)
• Senaka Buthpitiya (Ph.d. student, Silicon Valley/ECE, independent research)
• Peng-Wen Chen (Master student, Silicon Valley, research assistant)
• Snehal Kumar Chennuru (Master student, Silicon Valley, research assistant)
• Tony Lin (Master student, graduated, joined Motorola)
• Omar AbdulBaki (Master student, graduated, working for Research In Motion)