I am conducting social and technological experiments in the future evolution of the world's languages. I am collaborating with speech communities in diasporas and ancestral homelands to design new approaches to language maintenance and revitalisation, including storytelling and mobile-assisted oral language learning.
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 recruiting PhD students to the Oral Language Technology group for research in technology and design for language revitalization (more).
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