Jordan Kodner
Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJordan Kodner is an assistant professor at Stony Brook University who combines computational linguistics and cognitive science to model child language acquisition, with a particular focus on algorithmic morphology and its role in language change and low-resource NLP. With a PhD and MSE from the University of Pennsylvania and 14 years of research and industry experience—including an Amazon Alexa NLU internship and work at Raytheon BBN—he bridges rigorous theoretical work and practical systems. His research uniquely ties models of grammar learning to historical linguistics and language variation, informing evaluation practices at the intersection of NLP and cognitive modeling. An intellectually wide-ranging scholar, he also publishes and researches topics from Singlish and Shona to paleontology and computing history, reflecting an uncommon breadth that fuels creative cross-disciplinary insights.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics at University of Pennsylvania
Latin, Spanish, Hebrew
Github Skills (12)
linguistics5
topic-modeling4
nlp4
transducer4
language-processing4
neat4
sequence-to-sequence3
natural-language-processing3
sequence3
deep-learning2
extraction1
neural-network1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jkodner05/syllabify
Jan 2020 - Dec 2024
Automatic syllabification
Contributions:3 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
syllabification
anupama-penn/distributed-chat
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:123 commits in 1 month
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