Startup founder turned researcher, building new systems to process the world’s oldest writing.
- I’ve spent the past decade crafting data annotation interfaces in various domains. I believe that an investment in establishing a foundation of good data is repaid many times over.
- These days I’m focused on processing the ~500,000 extant cuneiform texts, a corpus which bears witness to three millennia of human civilization, beginning with the birth of writing itself.
- I’m currently a DPhil student at Oxford, having completed an MPhil in the Akkadian, Sumerian, and Elamite languages.
- Previously, I was Co-founder & CTO at AbstractCRE, a platform for extracting & analyzing structured data from commercial real estate legal docs, and studied Symbolic Systems at Stanford.
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