Hi. I’m Jacob. Some things I’m interested in are human language processing and inference algorithms. My research builds on probabilistic models of cognition, using information theory, algorithmic complexity, and tools from linguistics and machine learning.
In my current position I research and coordinate at CHI FRO, and I am part of the GenLM research consortium. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, working with Roger Levy, in the Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory. I completed my PhD in Linguistics at McGill University, under the supervision of Tim O’Donnell, where I was a member of the Montreal Computational & Quantitative Linguistics Lab and Mila – Quebec AI Institute.
I’m also a dancer, formerly with Festival Ballet Providence (now Ballet RI) in Rhode Island, The Vanemuine Theatre in Tartu, Estonia, and José Mateo Ballet Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.