Aaron Jacobs
Department of Linguistics
University of Southern California
Grace Ford Salvatori 301
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1693

Education

• University of Southern California

  Linguistics Ph.D. student (2006–)

• University of Texas at Austin

  B.S., Mathematics (2006)
  B.A., Linguistics (2006)
  

Conference Publications

• Aaron J. Jacobs and Yuk Wah Wong. Maximum entropy word segmentation of chinese text. In Proceedings of the Fifth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, pages 185–188, Sydney, Australia, July 2006. Association for Computational Linguistics. [pdf]

Awards

• USC College Doctoral Fellowship (2006–)
• National Science Foundation VIGRE undergraduate research grant, awarded by the UT Austin mathematics department (Fall 2005)

Employment

• Research Assistant to Professor Dani Byrd (Spring 2008)
• Teaching Assistant for LING 275 Language and Mind (Fall 2007)
• Research Assistant to Professor Dani Byrd (Summer 2007)

Service

• President, USC Graduate Students in Linguistics (2007–2008)

Professional Organizations

• Student member, Acoustical Society of America
• Student member, Linguistic Society of America

Natural Languages

Native speaker of English, advanced in Chinese, past experience with German.

Computer Languages

Proficient in C, Objective-C, Python, LaTeX. Past experience with C++, Java, PHP, Perl.