I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Queens College (CUNY), and a member of the Doctoral Faculty of the Computer Science and Linguistics programs at the CUNY Graduate Center. I completed my Ph.D. at Columbia University in 2009. I lead the Speech Lab @ Queens College. I am a NSF CAREER Award winner. My research concerns Natural Language Processing, Spoken Language Processing, Prosody/Intonation and Machine Learning. I am the main author and maintainer of AuToBI - an open source java toolkit for prosodic analysis in English. Along with Julia Hirschberg and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, I am developing Reciprosody, a repository of prosodically annotated speech. I collaborate part time at the IBM TJ Watson Research Lab, where I helped improve the speech synthesis quality for Watson, the Jeopardy! playing system. At Interspeech 2011 in Florence, I gave a tutorial called "More than Words Can Say: Prosodic Analysis Techniques and Applications". The slides are available here. I won the CUNY Junior Faculty Research Award in Science and Engineering sponsored by the Sloan Foundation in 2014. My research statement can be found here.