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 in 1999, a M.Sc. (1996) and a B.Sc. (1995) 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

Machine Learning Natural Language Processing

      Publications
      Influential technologies developed

Contextual Spelling Correction     How do you spell that?     How do you spell Levenshtein?      Information-centric Browsing and Search     Putting Search into Context

      Favorite quote

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

      Personal interests

Hiking   Wildlife photography     Music (mainly jazz)   Lego