Connor Mayer
Assistant Professor at UC Irvine
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolConnor Mayer is an assistant professor in Language Science at UC Irvine who combines linguistics scholarship with 11 years of software engineering experience across game tech and academic research. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from UCLA and dual bachelor's in Computer Science and Linguistics from UBC, reflecting a rare cross-disciplinary fluency between computational systems and human language. Prior to academia he shipped features for major titles at Demonware using Python and C++, and earlier work bridged curriculum development, teaching, and funded research. Connor’s profile uniquely blends production-grade engineering for multiplayer and console games with experimental work in speech perception and phonetics, and he maintains a public portfolio at connormayer.com. Colleagues will find him equally at home reading signal processing papers, mentoring students, or contributing code that supports real-time services in demanding, latency-sensitive environments.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, 4.33, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, 4.33 at The University of British ColumbiaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics at University of California, Los Angeles
Japanese
Github Skills (21)
corpus7
testing5
origami4
linguistics4
web-application4
solr4
apertium4
phonetics4
python4
turkish4
automation3
ruby-on-rails3
selenium3
rails3
test-runner3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
connormayer/uci_phonotactic_calculator
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 25 commits in 8 months
connormayer/maxent.ot
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 52 commits in 2 years 5 months
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