Lara M
Assistant Professor at University of Maryland Baltimore County
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolLara M is an Assistant Professor at UMBC with eight years of research and applied experience at the intersection of language technologies, interactive narrative, and speech processing. She holds a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech and has driven research on automated story generation, dialog systems, AAC, and computational creativity through roles at Penn, Georgia Tech, CMU, and industry work at Amazon on Alexa Smart Home ML. Her background combines deep technical expertise in language technologies with practical system-building—she has developed chatbots, authoring tools, and experimental conversational agents dating back to work on virtual patients. Lara’s work uniquely bridges speech perception and creative narrative generation, enabling assistive communication and engaging interactive experiences. Based in Baltimore, she brings both scholarly rigor and hands-on implementation experience to interdisciplinary problems in HCI and NLP.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Human-Centered Computing, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Human-Centered Computing at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (MS), Language Technologies, Master of Science (MS), Language Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University - Language Technologies InstituteB.S., Computer Science and Linguistics, B.S., Computer Science and Linguistics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
Github Skills (23)
acl9
computational-linguistics9
phonetics9
datasets8
speech8
evaluation7
natural-language-processing7
multiclass-classification7
computer-vision7
nlp7
deep-learning6
machine-learning6
manipulation6
pytorch6
pandas6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lara-martin/lab
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:147 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
lara-martin/lara-martin.github.io
Nov 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:235 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
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