I am a researcher in the Text Mining, Search and Navigation group. I am also affiliated with the Machine Learning and Applied Statistics and the Natural Language Processing groups.

 Contact Information

 Background

I joined Microsoft in 2003, after completing my Ph.D. work at the Johns Hopkins University, where I was a member of the Center for Speech and Language Processing. I also received a M.S.E. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins, as well as an M.Sc. and a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Bucharest. Prior to coming to the United States, I held a junior faculty position in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Bucharest.

 Research interests

Information Extraction from Large Text Collections	Information Retrieval
Natural Language Processing	Machine Learning

 Publications

Contextual Spelling Correction
      How do you spell that?
      How do you spell Levenshtein?

Information-centric Browsing and Search
      Putting Search into Context
      TechFair 2007

Samuel Goldwyn: "The harder I work, the luckier I get."

Family

now including baby Stephanie

Hiking 

Wildlife photography

 Music (jazz, classical)

Lego