Dr. Christo Kirov, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Language and Speech Processing at JHU, working with David Yarowsky. His current research combines novel machine learning approaches with traditional linguistics to represent and learn morphological systems across the world’s languages, and to leverage this level of language structure in Machine Translation, Information Extraction, and other HLT tasks. Prior to joining CLSP, he was a Visiting Professor at the Georgetown University Linguistics Department. He has received his PhD in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins University studying under Colin Wilson, with dissertation work focusing on Bayesian approaches to phonology and phonetic expression.