I am an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Union College.

Before moving to Union I was a postdoc in Justine Cassell's lab at Northwestern University. And before that I did a joint PhD at the Department of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany and at Loria in Nancy, France. My advisors were Claire Gardent and Manfred Pinkal.

My research interests are in:

• natural language generation for interactive systems that are situated in physical or virtual environments
• generation of stories from data that combine text and visualizations
• computing education, in particular for students from non-computing majors

In fall 2024, I am teaching Programming on Purpose (CSC 120) and Data Structures (CSC 151).