I am a post-doctoral research scientist in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, at the Columbia University Medical Center, working with Dr. Noemie Elhadad. My area of research is unsupervised learning for natural language processing (NLP). I am therefore interested in computational linguistics, machine learning (primarily unsupervised), corpus statistics, Bayesian inference and related subject.

I recently completed my PhD at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. The topic of my PhD was "Graphical Models for Word Sense Disambiguation" and was involved with discovering the correct sense of ambiguous words in context in an unsupervised manner. The subject is one of the fundamental tasks in natural language processing and cognition, and a successful method for resolving word senses is expected to be beneficial for higher-level problems, such as automatic translation and information retrieval. My supervisor was Dr. Mirella Lapata.

I completed my MSc in Computer Science at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, under the supervision of Prof. Naftali Tishby. My thesis involved using clustering and a simplified clause model to assist in the discovery of the relationships between actions described in a text.

I am currently applying for faculty positions.

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