Experience

• Lead a computational linguistics study on Spanish-English code-switching, building a Python pipeline that evaluates XLM-RoBERTa and Llama 3 on grammatical minimal pairs by comparing surprisal scores with human acceptability judgments.
• Analyze bilingual interaction data in R, using SBERT sentence embeddings, cosine similarity, t-SNE, and mixed-effects regression to quantify how conventions form over repeated interactions.
• Fine-tune and evaluate a transformer-based ZIPA speech model for keyword search in unseen low-resource languages, and validate audio transcriptions.
• Supervise and mentor undergraduate research assistants in sentence generation, quality control, and data management.

• Co-authoring a chapter on participant recruitment procedures for the LANA-CASE manual, in preparation with Applied Linguistics Press.
• Built the Writing Feedback Corpus (WFC) for open-access release, annotating, transcribing, and coding the data and reviewing research assistants’ work for consistency.
• Led study design, project planning, timelines, and task delegation for the research team.

• Taught credit Russian courses at elementary and intermediate levels across reading, listening, speaking, and writing, with weekly lesson plans for six subjects aligned with OPI and DLPT standards.
• Developed 90+ activities with digital tools (Google Slides, Canva, Kahoot, Quizlet, BookWidgets, Smart Board), raising student engagement by 50% and weekly test scores by 30%.
• Administered DLPT exercises and OPI-style speaking tests, and assessed written tests and oral presentations on Russian history.
• Led cultural immersion activities, including cooking sessions and role-playing scenarios.

• Localized LGBTQ+ platform content from English to Russian, expanding language access for 420,000+ users.
• Post-edited 20,000+ machine-translated strings in Crowdin (a CAT tool), improving machine translation and language model output quality.
• Reviewed translations for cultural relevance and terminological consistency.

• Taught first-year composition and academic writing as instructor of record (120+ students), covering citation, research methods, and writing skills, and tutored 80+ students individually through the University Writing Commons.
• Designed course curriculum and 200+ activities aligned with learning outcomes, delivered through the BBLearn learning management system, and developed English for academic purposes and university-preparation courses in the Program in Intensive English, including courses for 150+ Chinese students.
• Taught ESL, including a TOEFL preparation course (30% score improvement) and tutoring for a hearing-impaired student at Coconino Community College in English, Russian, and ASL.

• Translated 50+ legal and personal documents (25,000 words) across English, Russian, and French, in every combination of the three.
• Processed court records and legal materials, including agreements, decrees, appeals, passports, and case files, ensuring legal and cultural accuracy.
• Provided translation and interpretation during 10+ pre-court and post-interrogation informational sessions.
• Interpreted at 10+ pre-court and post-interrogation informational sessions.

• Analyzed user behavior, fraud patterns, geo-specific trends, and marketing performance, and produced reports that guided decisions.
• Developed an anti-fraud tracking system with the policy department, improving fraud management and marketing compliance.
• Coordinated Product, Design, and Payments teams, improving performance metrics by 10%, and resolved 50+ customer issues.

• Resolved passenger complaints and requests, providing multilingual support in English and other languages.
• Traced and forwarded delayed or lost baggage in the WorldTracer system, maintaining accurate inventory and incident records.

Volunteering

• Co-founder, Europa House, UC San Diego2025 - Present
• Webmaster, AWIS San Diego/CATESOL San Diego2024 - Present
• Conference Committee, TESOL/CATESOL/AWIS San Diego/PEAKS/AACL2022 - Present
• Mentor, Northern Arizona University/UC San Diego2022 - Present
• Reviewer, GSDSEF/CAMP/Applied Linguistics Press/Center for Applied Linguistics2023 - 2026
• Post-Production Editor, BlackSea Film Studio2025
• Tax Preparation Volunteer, VITA Program, International Rescue Committee2025
• Orientation Volunteer, UC San Diego/San Diego State University2024 - 2025
• Coordinator, Corpus-informed Research and Teaching Interest Group, CATESOL2023 - 2025
• Russian Language Volunteer, San Diego State University/CATESOL2023 - 2025
• Data Manager, LANA Linguistics, Northern Arizona University2022 - 2024
• Communications Lead, GSAAL/Graduate English Organization, Northern Arizona University2022 - 2023
• Treasurer, Graduate English Organization/Sigma Tau Delta, Northern Arizona University2022 - 2023