Saif, Many congratulations! This is great news indeed.
-- Sid. On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 22:44 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello nlp'ers of UMD origin, > > I do not know Ted's new students so let me first introduce myself. I > am Saif Mohammad and Ted was my advisor for my masters at UMD. Since > then I have been pursuing a PhD at Toronto and occasionally send an > update to Ted and (for good or for the bad) even less occasionally to > the group. Heres one: > > I am happy to report that late this January I defended my doctorate. > Rada Mihalcea agreed to be my external examiner and it was great to > get feedback from her, in person, at Toronto. I will be submitting my > dissertation this week. While I write my acknowledgments, it seems > like the appropriate time to look west-ward and express sincere thanks > to the NLP group at UMD, especially Ted, Sid, Bridget, Amruta, and > Bano. Your continued support has been invaluable. > > In other news, as of the new year, I am a Research Associate at the > Institute of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, > College Park. I live in downtown Washington DC, which is working out > quite nicely. Bridget has bagged an internship at the prestigious > National Institute of Medicine here, which is great and I look forward > to meeting her again after Prague. > > Till next time. Best, > -Saif > > -- > Saif Mohammad > Research Associate > University of Maryland, College Park > http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~smm > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
