Work Experience #
Japanese Natural Language Understanding Specialist – Contract
Cerence, Inc., 2020-11 - 2021-04
- Extend NLU grammars used for speech recognition models with necessary labels and semantic tags
- Analyze and correct errors in NLU machine learning model output in an accurate and timely manner
- Localize English NLU resources into Japanese for use by a variety of global automakers in intent classification and semantic labeling
Statistics & Data Analysis Tutor
Varsity Tutors, 2019-09 - 2022-05
- Online tutoring for high school, undergraduate, and graduate level students
- Specializing in statistics and data analysis using R, Python, and SPSS
- Additional tutoring in Japanese, social science research design, and academic writing
Japanese Language & Cultural Activities Instructor, Academic Year Program
Concordia Language Villages, 2020-09 - 2021-04
- Teach Japanese language classes for high school credit, working with students ranging from beginner to intermediate-advanced level
- Lead virtual Japanese cultural activities including cooking, tea ceremony, and calligraphy as a part of CLV’s academic year programs
Japanese High-School Credit Teacher, Summer Session
Concordia Language Villages, 2017-07 - 2019-08
- Teach daily Japanese language classes for students ranging from beginner to ~300 level Japanese, including curriculum structuring, lesson planning, student assessments, and a range of activities and projects to showcase student outcomes
- Classes take place over 4 weeks as a part of CLV’s Accredited high school credit Summer programs, equivalent to one academic year of instruction totaling 180 hours when combined with other immersion activities at the camp
Summer Camp Counselor
Concordia Language Villages, 2015-07 - 2016-08
- Collaborate with other counseling staff to run Mori No Ike Japanese Language Immersion Camp for a period of four to five weeks, working with children and students ages 8 to 18
- Create original daily programming and camp activities entirely in Japanese, including language instruction, dance, cultural activities, and educational presentations
Skills #
Language
Language teaching, Translation, Linguistic theory, Cultural & educational activities, Natural Language Processing, Multilingual Research
Education #
Rochester Institute of Technology - Graduate - Experimental Psychology, 2018-01 - 2019-12
Colgate University - Undergraduate - Japanese & Psychology, 2013-08 - 2017-05
Kyoto Japanese Language School - Semester-long Language Study - Japanese, 2014-08 - 2014-12
Volunteer Work #
Fish Market Floor Intern - Himi City Port Authority, 2014-10 - 2014-10
- Communicate with other fish market floor staff to receive, sort, process, and inspect fish incoming from fishing boats
- Maintain market floor flow and operations
- Communicate in Japanese with staff and other interns to ensure completion of necessary processing tasks
Sea Turtle Conservation Operations Assistant - Ogasawara Marine Center, 2014-12 - 2014-12
- Coordinate with conservatory staff to care for sea turtles in various stages of rescue and rehabilitation
- Communicate in Japanese with staff and other assistants to conduct conversatory operations
Projects #
particles: Contextual particle frequency in written Japanese, taking a swing at the age old question of は vs が
Keywords: Report, Python, Japanese, NLP
thesis: Analyses from my graduate thesis work, Investigating Emotion-label and Emotion-laden Words in a Semantic Satiation Paradigm
Keywords: Publication, R, Psycholinguistics, Study
aozora_corpus: A compilation of Japanese texts pulled from 青空文庫
Keywords: Corpus, R, Japanese, Literature
embs: Tools streamlining sentence embedding or clustering techniques
Keywords: Application, Report, Python, NLP
siftr: Shiny app using SIF sentence embeddings to separate out unwanted text data
Keywords: Application, R, NLP, Sentence embedding
priors: An experiment combining pretrained and bag of words embeddings to incorporate prior semantic knowledge
Keywords: Report, Python, NLP, Sentence embedding
bowts: An experiment combining pretrained and bag of words embedding approaches for embedding vector space manipulation
Keywords: Report, Python, NLP, Sentence embedding
iterate: Iterative clustering for sklearn clusterers
Keywords: Tools, Python, Clustering, NLP
topics: Experiments and utilities for text topic extraction using decision trees
Keywords: Tools, Python, Clustering, NLP
nlt: Representing tabular data in natural language
Keywords: Tools, Go, RAG, NLP
gsgf: Generating natural language expressions from JSGF
Keywords: Tools, Go, Application, NLP
Languages #
English: Native
Japanese: CEFR B2
Conversational: Advanced High
Compositional - Spoken: Advanced Mid
Compositional - Written: Intermediate High
Interpretive - Spoken: Intermediate High
Interpretive - Written: Intermediate Mid
Research Interests #
Speech Processing (EN & JP)
Keywords: Speech intelligibility, Phonology, Emotional word characteristics
Bilingualism
Keywords: Language acquisition, L2 phoneme processing
Natural Language Processing
Keywords: Word & sentence embedding, Unsupervised learning, Document classification
Research Experience #
Integration of Visual Cues When Reproducing Novel L2 Phonemes - Colgate University - Undergraduate Thesis
- Assessing how visual cues impact how accurately English speakers reproduce Japanese long vowels and geminate consonants
Synthesis of English & Japanese Research on the McGurk Effect - Colgate University - Independent Research Grant
- Translating and synthesizing English and Japanese scientific literature for use in my thesis study through a student research grant awarded by Colgate University
