Shushan Karapetian
Director at USC Institute of Armenian Studies
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolShushan Karapetian is Director of the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies with over a decade of leadership and academic experience in heritage language pedagogy and diaspora studies. She advanced from lecturer and program director roles at UCLA to deputy director and now director at USC, shaping curriculum and institutional programs for Armenian and other heritage languages. A UCLA PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, she combines rigorous scholarship with practical course development—from beginning Eastern Armenian to advanced heritage language theory. She has taught and developed MA-level pedagogy courses in Hindi and Urdu as well, reflecting a comparative, cross-linguistic approach to language acquisition. Based in Los Angeles, she builds bridges between academic research, community needs, and public-facing cultural programming. Her career reflects both classroom innovation and strategic institute-building that amplifies minority language vitality.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at University of California, Los Angeles
Armenian, French, Russian
Github Skills (48)
pytorch9
nlp9
speech-recognition8
python8
deep-learning8
style-transfer8
natural-language-processing8
tensorflow8
machine-learning8
bert7
language-model7
transformer7
codex6
transformers6
decoder5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ShushanArakelyan/modular_code_search
Aug 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:746 commits in 1 year 1 month
ShushanArakelyan/shushanarakelyan.github.io
May 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:26 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 8 months
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