- Research interests in natural language processing, lexical semantics using both symbolic and statistical analysis methods for parsing and word sense disambiguation, sense representation and rephrasing
- Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in MIT's EECS Dept and member of Theory of Computation Group at CSAIL.
- Post-doctoral fellow at Oxford University Computing Laboratory. Research in models of quantum computation, high level methods for quantum computing and state transfer.