Trevor Benjamin Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

I am a senior leader in a team focused on revolutionizing how exams are marked through the development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence based technologies. The R&D done by our team forms an important component of ongoing digital transformation and change programmes, so I contribute heavily to roadmapping and developing business strategy to leverage these new capabilities.

I led on various aspects of the development, validation and delivery of digital English language exams.

I conducted various routine analyses to support the validation of our English language exams, as well as supporting a variety of research and development projects

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

I design and develop board games and then license them to publishing companies. I have over 20 published games, several having won awards within hobby games industry. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamedesigner/90410/trevor-benjamin

My doctoral research examined the ways in speakers of English signal that they have trouble hearing, understanding or accepting what another has said. The principal finding is that these actions, so called "other-initiations of repair", regularly offer quite detailed diagnosis of the trouble at hand. Through aspects of their lexico-syntatctic, cohesive and--especially--prosodic design they provide clues about what is causing the trouble (a particular word, reference, etc.) and how it could be fixed. This work thus highlights the fundamental role played by recipients in the resolution of communicative problems. My dissertation is available for download here http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/faculties/arts/2013/t.m.benjamin/?pLanguage=enDuring my time in Groningen, I was also heavily involved in a course in the international research MA in Linguistics. The course, entitled “Discourse and Pragmatics”, focused on developing students’ practical skills in analyzing how linguistic resources are used to organize spoken interactions and written texts. I played an active role in all aspects of module design, instruction and assessment for three years.

I worked on a project in human robot interaction. My main role was developing and testing a grammar for use within this system.

I taught English as a foreign language to Taiwanese children aged 5 to 15. I also acted as supervisor and organizer for a group of children on a week long trip to Singapore.

Harbin, China

I taught A-level mathematics and English to students preparing to apply for university in the UK.

Saint John & Fredericton

I tutored undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics students, one on one and in small groups. I also ran exam preparation courses for larger groups.University of New Brunswick, Canada

Saint John, New Brunswick

I developed, implemented and tested computational algorithms for solving large systems of linear equations. The aim was to break the problems up into parts which could be solved in parallel on clusters of computers (Canadian government student grant, NSERC).

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Linguistics And Communication

Advanced Masters, Cognitive And Functional Linguistics

Msc, Language Science And Technology, Computational Linguistics

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Mathematics And Philosophy