Géraldine Walther, Director
Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics
Faculty, Center for Advancing Human-Machine Partnership (CAHMP)
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Digital Innovation (IDIA)
Géraldine Walther’s research interests lie at the intersection between computational linguistics, linguistic typology, and cognitive science. She is investigating in the degree of internal cohesion within linguistic systems, which she researches using computational and quantitative methodologies applied to original data. Her approach focuses specifically on system-level patterns of linguistic sub-organization and their consequences for cognitive processing and development and diachronic change.
Yamei Wang, Lab manager
Ph.D. candidate; Graduate Research Assistant
Yamei Wang is a Ph.D. student in Linguistics. Her primary research interest is computational linguistics and laboratory phonetics. Currently, she is working on her dissertation which is a typological study focusing on classifier systems in East and Southeast Asian languages. In her free time, she enjoys jogging and reading novels.
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Haley A Todd
Ph.D. student; Graduate Teaching Assistant
Haley Todd is a Doctoral Student and Graduate Teaching Assistant at George Mason University. In 2017, Haley earned a B.A. in Modern Languages (Spanish and French) from the University of North Georgia. In 2019, she earned an M.A. from Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca in Spanish Language and Culture. Haley’s research interests include phonological typology, forensic analysis of text, and natural language processing. Haley is currently researching a case of author attribution via statistical computing analyses.