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

Before moving to Union I was a postdoc in the ArticuLab 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 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 winter 2022, I am teaching one of our introductory courses, Taming Big Data: Introduction to Computer Science (CSC 103), CSC 489, which is our guided research course for seniors, and CSC 033, the R practicum. I am on sabbatical in fall 2021 and spring 2022.