Yakov Kronrod Phd student Department of Linguistics University of Maryland
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PhD Student Department of Linguistics University of Maryland 5804 Quebec St. yakovkronrod@gmail.com Berwyn Heights, MD 20740 508.410.0846 Personal Background DOB: March 7, 1981 Moscow, Russia Date of Immigration to US: 1989 Date of Naturalization as US citizen: 1994
PhD Student, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, 2009-Present Expected Completion: August 2014 Graduate Coursework in Computer Science, Northeastern University, 2006 Graduate Coursework in Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2002 B.S. Mathematics (with high honors), Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1998-2001 Complete Undergraduate Computer Science Coursework, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1998-2001
IGERT Workshop on developing interdisciplinary graduate programs. Coeur d’Alene, ID. 2012 Machine Learning Summer School, Purdue University, 2011 Winter Storm Workshop (research, techniques, and development), University of Maryland, 2010-2013 Teaching Experience (Please see attached Teaching Statement for details and analysis) Teaching Assistant, LING 200: Introduction to Linguistics, UMD. Fall 2012 Teaching Assistant, LING 200: Introduction to Linguistics, UMD. Spring 2012 Teaching Assistant, LING 200: Introduction to Linguistics, UMD. Fall 2011 High School Mathematics Teacher, School ONE, Providence, RI. 2008-2009 Mathematics Tutor, Wiz Tutoring, LLC, Providence, RI. 2007-2008 Mathematics and SAT Tutor, Club-Z In Home Tutoring, Worcester, Ma 2005 Middle School Mathematics Teacher, Southbridge Middle School, Southbridge, Ma. 2004-2005 Director of MCAS tutoring, Southbridge High School, Southbridge, Ma. 2004 Preceptor, Artificial Intelligence, WPI. 2002 Preceptor, Algorithms, WPI. 2002 Preceptor, Graphics, WPI. 2002 Senior Teaching Assistant, Data Structures and Programming Techniques, WPI. 2001 Senior Teaching Assistant, Discrete Mathematics, WPI. 2001 Peer Learning Assistant, Linear Algebra, WPI. 2001-2002 Courses Prepared to Teach Introduction to Linguistics (undergrad, graduate), introduction to Phonology (undergrad, graduate), Seminar in Categorical Perception and Phoneme Processing, Programming for the Social Scientist (undergrad, graduate) Mentoring Experience Supervising 1 adult continuing student. MEG experimentation and analysis, 2010-2011 Supervising 1 undergraduate in Linguistics, MEG experimentation and analysis, 2010-2011 Work Experience (non-teaching) Software Engineer, Avid Technology, Inc. Tewksbury, Ma. 2008 Founder and Director of Education, Wiz Tutoring, Inc. Providence, RI. 2007-2008 Software Automation Engineer, Incipient, Inc. Waltham, Ma 2006-2007 Manager and Software Automation Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Burlington, Ma 2005-2006 Software Engineer, Softscape, Inc. Wayland, Ma. 2004 Account Executive, Pagio, Inc. Worcester, Ma 2004 Account Advertising Executive, Worcester Publishing, Worcester, Ma. 2004 Independent Software Development Consultant, Civigenics, Inc. Marlboro, Ma. 2000 Laboratory Assistant, Fire Protection Engineering Center, WPI. 1998-1999 Research Experience IGERT Research Rotation, UMD, Directed by Jeff Lidz. 2012 Research fellow, UMD. Directed by Philip Resnik. 2009-2011 Research Assistant, Northeastern. Directed by R. Futrelle. 2006 Research Assistant, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Directed by E. Rundensteiner, 2001 Notable Research Projects Investigating Poka Constructions in Russian, a Corpus acquisition study, with J. Lidz, 2012 Dirichlet Processes for bilingual development, with N. Feldman, 2011-2012 Bayesian models of phonetic category effects, with N. Feldman, 2011-2012 Arabic Sentiment Analysis, with P. Resnik, 2011-2012 Monolingual Translation and Crowdsourcing, with P. Resnik and B. Bederson, 2010-2012 Cross-language English-Russian priming with false cognates. With K. Gor. 2011 MEG Study of categorical perception in fricatives. With W. Idsardi, 2010-2012 Artificial languages and noun class learning. With J. Lidz, 2010-2011 NLP for Biological Knowledge Extraction. With R. Futrelle, 2006 Pattern Formation via Activator-Inhibitor systems in biological systems. With S. Weekes. 2000-2001 Statistical Modeling of the Digital Divide, With S. Selkow, 2000-2001 XMDV: Multivariate Data Visualization, with E. Rundensteiner, 2001 Publications Kronrod, Y., E. Coppess, & N. Feldman “A Unified Model of Categorical Effects in Consonant and Vowel Perception”. Proceedings of the 2012 meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Resnik, P., O. Buzek, Y. Kronrod, C. Hu, A. J. Quinn, & B. Bederson. Using Targeted Paraphrasing and Monolingual Crowdsourcing to Improve Translation. To appear in ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST). In Press Hu, C., P. Resnik, Y Kronrod, & B. B. Bederson. Deploying MonoTrans Widgets in the Wild, to appear on CHI 2012, Sep 2011 Hu, C., P. Resnik, Y. Kronrod, V. Eidelman, O. Buzek, & B. B. Bederson. 2011. “The value of monolingual crowdsourcing in a real-world translation scenario: simulation using Haitian Creole emergency SMS messages.” In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (Edinburgh, Scotland, July 30 - 31, 2011). Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, 399-404. Hu, C., B. B. Bederson, P. Resnik, and Y. Kronrod. 2011. “MonoTrans2: a new human computation system to support monolingual translation.” In Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 07 - 12, 2011). CHI '11. ACM, New York, NY, 1133-1136. Kronrod, Y., P. Resnik, O. Buzek, C. Hu, A. Quinn, & B. B. Bederson. “Position Paper: Improving Translation via Targeted Paraphrasing.” American Machine Translation Association (AMTA) Workshop on Collaborative Translation. 2010 Resnik, P., O. Buzek, C. Hu, Y. Kronrod, A. Quinn, & B. B. Bederson. 2010. “Improving translation via targeted paraphrasing”. In Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 09 - 11, 2010). Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, 127-137. Conference and Workshop Oral Presentations Kronrod, Y., E. Coppess, & N. Feldman. “A Unified Model of Categorical Effects in Consonant and Vowel Perception”. Talk to be given at the 2012 meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, August 2012 Kronrod, Y. “Sound Categories: A Parametric Approach” GRID. University of Maryland. April, 2012 Kronrod, Y. “Translating with Monolinguals: Crowdsourcing and Human Computation.” GRID. University of Maryland. April, 2011 Kronrod, Y. “Who Where Which Superiority Effect in Russian saw?” ECO5, Harvard University. March 2010. Kronrod, Y. “Learning Noun Classes.” GRID. University of Maryland. April, 2010 Kronrod, Y. “Looking Ahead in Pattern Formation.” Mathfest National Conference. Madison, WI. 2001 Kronrod, Y. “Pattern Formation in Biological Systems.” New England Regional Conference of the MAA. Norwich University, VT. 2001. Kronrod, Y. “Pseudo Random Number Generators.” Mathfest National Conference. Los Angeles, CA. 2000 Poster Presentations Kronrod, Y., C. Hu, O. Buzek, & A. Quinn. “Using Monolingual Crowds to Improve Translation”. AAAS. Washington DC. February 2010 Kronrod, Y., O. Buzek, C. Hu, A. Quinn, P. Resnik, & B. B. Bederson. “Using Crowdsourcing to Translate Without Bilinguals.” CrowdConf, San Francisco, CA. October 2010 Lago, S., Y. Kronrod, M. J. Scharinger, & W. J. Idsardi. “Categorical perception of [s] and [sh]? An MMN study.” Neurobiology of Language Conference. San Diego, CA. November, 2010 Scholarships, Fellowships, Awards, and Honors Top presentation at Graduate Research Interaction Day (GRID) 2012. $400 Travel Award. Purdue Machine Learning Summer School Scholarship Award ($600/2011) IGERT NSF GRANT ??YK: fill in details here YK?? Winner, Student Poster Competition (Math, Technology, and Engineering) 2011 American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) Conference "Using Monolingual crowds to Improve Translation" Salisbury Prize Award (2002) Award for the most meritorious senior at the university. Established by Stephen Salisbury II, a WPI founder and the first president of the Board of Trustees. This is WPI’s most prestigious prize. Barry M. Goldwater Scholar (2001-2002) -details at http://www.wpi.edu/News/Releases/20001/goldwater.html Provost MQP Award for Mathematics (2001) Award given for the top senior thesis in disciplines studied at Worcester Polytechnic Institute Waldemar J. Trijzinsky Award (2001) -details at http://www.wpi.edu/News/Releases/20012/trjitzinsky.html Neil Sullivan award for Computer Science (2001) Meritorious Winner, Mathematical Contest in Modeling (2001) Mathematical Sciences Provost MQP Award (2001) International MathFest Best presentation award (2001) Richard V. Olson award for Mathematics (2000) -details at http://www.wpi.edu/News/Releases/19990/olsonaward.html International MathFest Best presentation award (2000) Charles O. Thomas Scholar (1999) Governor’s Honors in Mathematics (1998) Rensselaer Medal for high achievement in Mathematics and Science (1998) School Winner, American High School Matehmatics Exam (AHSME) (1998) Inducted into National Honors Society (1996) Cultural Ambassador to Heredia, Costa Rica (1996) Academic Service Winter Storm Training Workshop Organizing Committee, IGERT @ UMD, 2012-2013 Graduate Student Government Linguistics Rep, UMD. 2011-2013 Dean’s Advisory Council, UMD, 2011-2012 Outreach Committee Coordinator, IGERT @ UMD, 2011-2012 Language Science Day Organizing Committee, IGERT @ UMD, 2011-2012 ECO-5 Workshop Coordinator, UMD Representative. 2010-2013 University Senator representing College of Arts and Humanities, UMD. 2010-2011 Volunteer Coordinator at Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), UMD. 2010 Organizing Committee for Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, UMD. 2010 Community Service Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement, 2004-Current South Worcester Neighborhood Center, Worceter, Ma. 2001-2002 MCAS Tutor, Worcester, Ma 2001-2002 Special Olympics of Massachusetts, Worcester, Ma 1999-2002 The Mustard Seed Homeless Feeding Center and Food Bank, Worcester, Ma 2002-2003 March of Dimes Walk for Diabetes, Worcester, Ma 1999-2001 Greater Media Area Soup Kitchen, Media, Pa 1999 Other Services:
Professional and Social and Memberships Cognitive Science Society Neurobiology of Language Society American Machine Translation Association ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity PME Mathematics Honors Society APO Service Fraternity ACLU American Association for the Advancement of Science Association for Computational Linguistics Languages Fluent : English, Russian Conversational: Spanish Familiar: French, Portuguese, and ASL (American Sign Language) Research: Catalan
Computer Languages: Proficient in C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, Python Familiar with Perl, Ruby, Prolog, Assembly (Pentium chip spec), Scheme Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Unix, DOS, Apple Mac OS Software Packages: R Statistical package, Matlab, WEKA Machine Learning Toolkit Additional: SQL Server and Queries
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