Graduate student at Johns Hopkins in computational linguistics and natural language processing. Originally from Louisville, now based in Baltimore. Looking to have a few adventures, meet people, and learn things along the way!

My research mainly focuses on machine translation and quantitative sociolinguistics. I'm interested in how people interact on social media, as well as building applications for endangered and low-resource languages.

Outside of work, I love music (playing and listening), art, philosophy, urban exploration, architecture, theater, film, cooking (French, Thai, German, Southern), and language learning.

I play guitar, bass, banjo, and synthesizer.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To have adventures, connect with new people outside my circles, and expand my understanding of people from every walk of life.

Interests

• architecture
• fashion
• music
• guitar
• computer science
• languages
• philosophy
• psychology
• linguistics
• film
• meeting new people
• bass guitar

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: ambient, post-rock, pop, Impressionist (Debussy, Satie), house, disco, funk, Motown.

Books: Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Chomsky, Zizek, Ricœur, Foucault, Sartre, Camus.

Movies: Mulholland Drive, Inside Out, Before Sunrise, Trois Couleurs, À bout de souffle, Cléo de 5 à 7, It Follows, Blue Velvet, Inland Empire.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I regularly visit Canada during the winters, and as of winter '17/'18, I've gotten into winter mountain hiking. I climbed one of the tallest mountains in Québec that January, and I plan to do even more in the near future!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Help with household work, coffee or tea, a listening ear.

Teach you programming and some artificial intelligence techniques if you're so inclined. :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, Canada, Costa Rica, United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States