C.M. Downey joins the Linguistics Department as our newest tenure track faculty member
Join us in welcoming our newest tenure track faculty member to the department, C.M. Downey.
Before joining the university in 2024, Downey earned a PhD from the University of Washington, on a Computational Linguistics track. Downey's dissertation, titled Adapting Pre-Trained Models and Leveraging Targeted Multilinguality for Under-Resourced and Endangered Language Processing, was advised by Gina-Anne Levow and Shane Steinert-Threlkeld.
Downey's research develops methods to improve the efficacy of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools for under-resourced languages (those lacking the abundant data needed to train modern machine learning models).
For more information, go to C.M. Downey's faculty page.