Prud'hommeaux Joins Faculty

Dr. Emily Prud'hommeaux joins the department this semester as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology where she co-founded the Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing Lab.

Prud'hommeaux's research focuses on applications of natural language processing and speech signal processing in the medical domain, particularly for identifying linguistic markers of neurological disorders such as autism and dementia. She's also interested in word alignment, language modeling, and applications of NLP for education and accessibility. This semester she is teaching CSCI 339002 Topics: Natural Language Processing.