I am conducting social and technological experiments in the future evolution of the world's languages. Together with my students and colleagues, I am developing scalable methods for preserving disappearing words and world views for future generations of speakers and scholars. I am collaborating with speech communities in diasporas and ancestral homelands to design new approaches to language maintenance and revitalisation.

I studied computer science at the University of Melbourne before completing a PhD in computational linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. I have conducted fieldwork on endangered languages in West Africa, Central Asia, Amazonia, Melanesia, and Australia. I've held academic positions at the Universities of Edinburgh, Pennsylvania, Melbourne, and UC Berkeley. I am currently based in West Arnhem in Australia's "Top End", working on the Bininj Kunwok language.

I am recruiting PhD students and a postdoctoral fellow for research in technology and design for language revitalization (more).

Listen to my TEDxDarwin 2016 talk (YouTube).
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Karakoram Highway, Xinjiang, China

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