I am a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, and a member of the Interaction, Media and Communication research group. My main interest is in the computational semantics and pragmatics of dialogue - using the context of a conversation to build models of what people are actually talking about.

I am the local organiser for the SIGDIAL 2009 conference in discourse and dialogue, to be held here at Queen Mary in September - check out the programme and register here! In 2010 I will be technical programme co-chair for the SEMDIAL workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, to be held in Poznań, Poland.

Before arriving at QMUL in 2009, I worked in the Computational Semantics Lab at CSLI, Stanford, on projects building an automatic meeting-understanding system and a conversational dialogue system for cars. Prior to that I did my PhD at King's College London, looking at clarificational dialogue and what it means for dialogue systems. And before any of this academic stuff, I worked as an engineer in the field of active noise & vibration control, mostly with Ultra Electronics and Noise Cancellation Technologies.

During 2008, I spent a year travelling around Europe, Turkey, North and West Africa with my wife (a professional chef) to learn all about food and its traditions. You can read all about it here.