Curriculum Vitae

My CV tells a story in three parts. Currently, I research social communication outside of the academic environment. I will soon start working at Boston Fusion, a research consulting company with contracts from the US military. At LivePerson, I worked to develop a Meaningful Automated Conversation Score (MACS), which identifies where and why dialog systems fail to provide positive consumer experiences, and provides solutions to brands. 

As a PhD Candidate at Tufts University, I studied how people (fail to) identify and repair communication problems. I also helped develop the first version of GailBot, a speech-to-text software that marks where people talk over each other, pauses within and between turns, and changes in speech rate. 

Finally, before graduate school I was a research assistant at the Facial Affective and Communicative Expressions Laboratory at Emerson College. There, we analyzed the facial expressions, heart rate and skin conductance, eye gaze patterns, and survey responses of children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).