I am a fourth year PhD student in Andrew McCallum's Information Extraction Synthesis Laboratory. I am currently working on integrating named-entity and relation extraction with text-based topic models. My research goal is to explore new ways of helping people work with large, unfamiliar text collections.

Before coming to UMass, I worked for an internet auction startup, the NLP group at the University of Sheffield, and a cultural heritage digital library, the Perseus Project. I have a particular interest in historical texts and languages.

I am currently chief maintainer for the MALLET Machine Learning toolkit. I also run the UMass Machine Learning and Friends lunch series.