As of July 2006 I've been a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Complex Systems and Artificial Life Lab at the University of Tokyo. Between April and June 2006 I was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Computational Cognitive Science Lab of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. I'm working on language evolution, and acquisition. During 2005 and 2006 I was an Economic and Social Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh, where I worked in the Language, Evolution and Computation Research Unit on a project called "Understanding Language through Bayesian and Evolutionary Models".

In 2004-2005 I was a research associate in the GATE team in the natural language processing group at Sheffield University. Until August 2003 I was a Ph.D. student in the Smart Internet Technology Research Group in the School of Information Technologies, at the University of Sydney. Until July 1999 I was in the Linguistics Department, and before that in the Linguistics and Psychology Departments at Edinburgh University, where I got my MA(honours) degree (in psychology and linguistics), though I did my dissertation in the Centre for Cognitive Science. I also tried my hand at being a marine scientist for about six months in the School of Geosciences, also at Sydney University where I wrote the Ellipsis GUI. Here is a brief (and increasingly out of date) CV.