Michael Goodale
Research Assistant at Ecole normale supérieure
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Goodale is a cognitive science researcher and computational linguist pursuing a Master’s at École Normale Supérieure with 11 years of research experience bridging psycholinguistics and NLP. He studies how deep neural networks represent linguistic structure, producing work on adjective representations in LLMs presented at BlackboxNLP (EMNLP 2021) and at ESSLII’s Bridges and Gaps workshop. His background spans academia and industry—phonological representation in unsupervised speech models, BERT-based pipelines and automated dataset creation at Nuance, and experimental work with fMRI/EEG and web tools—so he moves fluently between theory, data, and engineering. Michael combines rigorous experimental methods with practical engineering (Django, Neo4j, Python) to probe whether neural models mirror human syntactic and phonological computations. He is based in Paris and brings a rare mix of linguistic insight and hands-on ML tooling that can both test cognitive hypotheses and scale NLP experiments.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Cognitive Science, Master's degree, Cognitive Science at Ecole normale supérieureBachelor's degree, Cognitive Science, 3.9/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Cognitive Science, 3.9/4.0 at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (80)
acoustics10
neo4j10
burn9
api9
database9
speech-processing9
representations9
rest-api9
steam8
high-performance8
voice8
proton8
wine8
python8
deep-learning8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MichaelGoodale/michaelgoodale.github.io
Nov 2016 - Oct 2024
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 11 months
MichaelGoodale/Clickbait-Classifier
Nov 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:34 commits, 6 pushes in 7 months
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