I've been an assistant professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park since September, 2004. I'm a member of the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) Lab at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).

In August 2004, I completed my Ph.D. in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department (EECS) from MIT, where I was working in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). My Ph.D. thesis was titled Event Structure and the Encoding of Arguments: The Syntax of the Mandarin and English Verb Phrase. (UMIACS).