Post-docs on the move

Postdocs heading to Los Angeles, Toronto and Berlin

Big congratulations to Shohini Bhattasali, Dan Goodhue and Meg Cychosz, who have recently secured new positions after their time as postdoctoral fellows at Maryland.

Shohini has been a postdoc with Philip Resnik in UMIACS and NACS, focusing on computational modeling of neural activity in language processing. She is now moving on to be Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics in the Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, where she will start a lab at the intersection of computational linguistics and cognitive neuroscience. Welcoming her at Scarborough will be Linguistics PhD alums Phil Monahan *09 and Dave Kush *13, who Shohini will also join in having a graduate appointment in Linguistics at the St. George campus of UT, where Kush's classmate Ewan Dunbar *13 is Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics in the Department of French.

Dan's work is mainly in the semantics of prosody and speech acts. As a postdoc with Valentine Hacquard and Jeff Lidz in Linguistics, he has developed these interests through projects on language acquisition, asking when and how young children identify the relation between clause types and speech acts, for example the association between the form of an interrogative clause and the act of asking a question. Dan now heads to ZAS in Berlin to work on the same issues within the SPAGAD project, on "Speech Acts in Grammar and Discourse," directed by Manfred Krifka. 

Meg has been at Maryland on an NIH-sponsored post-doctoral fellowship in Hearing and Speech Sciences, doing research in phonetics and speech development under the supervision of Jan Edwards and Nan Ratner. She is now to expand the Terp presence at UCLA, joining Tim Hunter *10 and Laurel Perkins *19, as Assistant Professor of Linguistics there, keeping pace with our leading employer at 'Terpronto,' Ontario.