Grant M. Berry, Ph.D. Linguist. Scholar. Stress baker.

Resume

Contact

• Grant M. Berry, Ph.D.
• Villanova University
• Cognitive Science Program
• 800 East Lancaster Avenue, Villanova PA 19085
• Mendel Hall G65-C, Villanova University
• +1 857 762 4887
• berry.grant@gmail.com
• https://grantberry.info

Note: Github hosts alternate versions of my CV and my resume

Employment

Academic

• Assistant Professor (Cognitive Science), Villanova U
• Director, Language Use and Variation Lab, Villanova U

Professional

• Applied Scientist @ (Amazon) Prime Video
• Technical Program Manager (Data Quality) @ Amazon Alexa
• Language Engineer (Household Organization) @ Amazon Alexa

Education/Training

Degrees Earned

• Ph.D. in Spanish & Language Science (Dual Title) @ Penn State U
• M.A. in Spanish @ Penn State U
• B.S. in Mathematics @ Truman State U
• B.A. in Spanish @ Truman State U

Other Training/Experiences

• Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (Argentina)
• Visiting Scholar @ Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Netherlands)
• Visiting Scholar @ U of Pennsylvania
• Visiting Scholar @ Radboud U (Netherlands)
• Amazon Machine Learning University
• Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute Fellowship (U Chicago)

Skills

Program/Product Management

• KPI Creation & Monitoring
• Concise Technical Writing
• Agile Methodology and Scrum
• Roadmapping/Scoping effort
• Prepared over 25 undergraduates for professional success, including Fulbright Fellowships, competitive internships, and top PhD programs

Technical Expertise

• Data visualization: Create intuitive, informative, and visually appealing representations of complex data
• Acoustic Analysis: Advanced knowledge of acoustic corrlates of speech and variation in English and Spanish
• Data wrangling & manipulation: tidyverse, pandas
• Statistics: Advanced knowledge of Bayesian and frequentist statistical methods (regression, gams, pca, time series analysis, survival analysis)
• AI/ML: Model fine-tuning, prompt generation, optimization, fairness
• NLU/NLP: Developed and deployed deterministic and probablistic artifacts at scale
• Localization: Detailed understanding of language variation and change in English and Spanish

Languages

Human Languages

• Native fluency in American English; Near-native fluency in Spanish
• General knowledge of Italian, Portuguese, Modern Standard Arabic, Dutch, and Classical Latin

Programming Languages

• Python (3.x): sk-learn, huggingface, langchain, pandas, pytorch, librosa, mne, jupyter, seaborn, nltk, beautifulsoup
• R: tidyverse, ggplot2, rstanarm, lme4, mgcv
• SQL: Intermediate
• BASH/Z-shell: Intermediate (very comfortable with CLIs)

Knowledge Dissemination

Media Outreach

• You gotta have rizz to slay – How Oxford chooses its word of the year (KYW News Radio)
• Alexa, how do you work? (Villanova Magazine)
• Community Conversations: Sociolinguistics (Main Line Network Public Access)
• So does Elmo have a Philly accent? We asked an expert (Philadelphia Magazine)
• Philly Accent: There’s a lot Youse Don’t Know (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Teaching

• Fairness in Artificial Intelligence
• Introduction to Spanish Translation (machine and human)
• Bilingualism
• Linguistics as a Cognitive Science
• Phonetics
• Sociolinguistic Variation in US Spanish