I am a computational linguist, visual artist, and (most recently) an architectural designer. I am a recent graduate of Indiana University's innovative new J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program. But before I was a Miller grad, I was a graduate of IU's PhD program in computational linguistics; my thesis work dealt with the unsupervised learning of nonconcatenative morphology, e.g., the "root-and-pattern" morphological systems of Semitic languages.As for visual art-- insofar as it's different from visual design, I've been making visual art for as long as I can remember. When I was a graduate student in computational linguistics, I adopted a practice of painting en plein air, going out nearly every evening to draw or paint.