Heather Simpson Email & Phone Number

An intensive seven week post-doctoral training fellowship bridging the gap between academia and data science

Santa Clara, Ca

- Managed tutorial creation for IoT data collection/analysis cloud-based platform- Worked with software engineers to develop Javascript code used to control open-source IoT hardware devices- Created Python code to modify workflows on Medium One platform

Programming Languages: R, PythonResearch Projects: • Dissertation: modeling how units created through pitch changes and rhythm in spontaneous speech break up speech into 'bite-sized' pieces that we can process in our limited short-term memory • used generalized additive mixed model to investigate whether predictors were non-linear, and the shape of their function w.r.t. the dependent variable • used measure of shared Shannon information to investigate how much people repeat words and structures that they and others previously used in a conversation • used pointwise mutual information (PMI) to measure association strength for bigrams in corpus and compare with recall-based association strength• used binary logistic mixed effects regression to model the factors governing Korean adjective order preferences (e.g."small blue chair" vs. "blue small chair") in 35-million-word Korean corpus• used binary logistic mixed effects regression to model the acoustic cues contributing to categorization of Japanese /s/ sounds by Korean speakersTechnical Skills: • 5+ years experience using R to process, analyze and visualize data• 2+ years experience using Python to process, analyze and visualize data (Pandas, Seaborn)• Experience using NLTK Python tool kit for natural language processing (parsing, tokenizing)

I have served as a Teaching Associate for 3 undergraduate course sessions, and as a Teaching Assistant for 10+ undergraduate course sessions. Responsibilities:• Creating lectures and other course materials that effectively translate complex academic concepts to a non-specialist audience • Assessing student performance

Santa Barbara, California Area

• taught English to highschool and college-age students

Greater Philadelphia Area

At LDC, I managed 4 multi-year, multi-million dollar linguistic data collection/annotation projects supporting Human Language Technology (HLT) evaluation. I led a team of technical and annotation staff in creation of training and test data, coordinating with a team of in-house software engineers to address data and software needs, and translating client needs into a concrete plan for data creation. I worked in a Linux environment.Projects: Automatic Content Extraction (ACE), Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE) Distillation, Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) and NIST Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) Video Events

Phd, Linguistics With Emphasis In Cognitive Science

Activities and Societies: Cognitive Science Program

Master’S Degree, Linguistics

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Linguistics