I am a PhD student in the Media Lab, working at the intersection of planning and natural language processing. My advisors are Henry Lieberman and Marvin Minsky.

My goal is to make computers understand English in a similar functional capactity as people. This research treads many academic topics: machine reading and story understanding, event structures and lexical semantics, semantic role labeling, statistical relational learning, sequence mining, event recognition and extraction, planning, plan recognition, metacognition and self-modeling.