| PhD | 2000 | School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex D.Phil. in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence Supervisor: Prof. Gerald Gazdar, Thesis Title: Computational Learning of Finite-State Models for Natural Language Processing |
| MSc | 1995 | Imperial College, University of London M.Sc. (with Distinction for the M.Sc. Thesis) in Computing Science Diploma of the Imperial College in Computing Science. |
| MA | 1994 | University of Westminster M.A. (with Distinction) in Technical and Specialised Translation with German, Russian, Czech and Dutch. |
| BA | 1992 | School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London B.A. First Class Honours in Russian Language and Literature and Distinction in the Russian oral examination, with subsidiary Bulgarian. 1991 Georgette Donchin Literature Prize. |
| Since Aug 2005 | Natural Language Technology Group, Department of Computing, Mathematical and Information Schiences, University of Brighton Reader (from July 2010); previously Principal Lecturer (2008-2010); Senior Lecturer (2006-2008), Senior Research Fellow (2005-2006) and Research Fellow (2001-2005). |
| Aug 2001 - Jul 2005 | ITRI, University of Brighton Research Fellow. Carried out research on PILLS, NECA and COGENT projects. Tought course module Topics in Language Technology 2001-04. |
| May 1999 - Aug 2001 | SRI International Employed as a computer scientist in a post-doctoral position to work full-time on project Learning Computational Grammars, funded under the EU's TMR Scheme. Other project partners are Groningen University (coordinating partner), Antwerp University, Tuebingen University, University College Dublin, Geneva University and Xerox Research Centre Europe. |
| Oct 1995 - Apr 1999 | COGS, University of Sussex Employment as tutor (Courses: Introduction to Logic Programming, Natural Language Processing), laboratory supervisor and help-desk administrator. |
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