Naomi Shapiro
Visiting Research Assistant Professor Of Linguistics at University of Michigan
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNaomi Shapiro is a computational linguist and psycholinguist with 12 years of experience applying experimental and computational methods to how humans and machines learn, represent, and process language. Currently a Visiting Research Assistant Professor of Linguistics, her recent work focuses on multilingual minds and multilingual machine models, building on postdoctoral research in bilingual language models. She blends rigorous experimental work—eye-tracking, longitudinal child language datasets, and socioeconomic analyses—with hands-on model development and tooling from prior research roles at Stanford and RAND. Naomi has a strong engineering bent dating to early backend and production engineering roles, and she has released research software such as FinnSyll for automatic Finnish syllabification. Based in Seattle, she combines deep academic training (PhD, MS) with practical experience teaching, mentoring, and developing reproducible computational resources that bridge theory and application.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Linguistics at University of WashingtonMaster of Science Symbolic Systems, Master of Science Symbolic Systems at Stanford University
English, Hebrew, JapaneseProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tsnaomi/tsnaomi.github.io
Mar 2016 - Apr 2025
Contributions:232 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 1 month
tsnaomi/chinese_mt
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:114 commits, 74 pushes, 3 branches in 12 days
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