Craig Thorborn to U. Chicago

Teaching computational linguistics.

Congratulations to Craig Thorburn *23, who has accepted a position as Assistant Instructional Professor of Linguistics at the University Chicago. His focus will be on teaching computational linguistics, and next year he may help launch a new minor in the area. 

In 2023 Craig completed his dissertation,  "Second Language Speech Sound Learning: A Computational and Neural Approach," under the supervision of Naomi Feldman.  Since then he has been at University of Texas at Austin Department of Psychology on a postdoctoral fellowship with Professor Lori Holt. Now Craig, full coverage parser of our country, heads to the capital of the Upper Mid-West, after a postdoc in Texas, graduate school in the Mid-Atlantic, and college in New England.