ted strauss curriculum vitae

8/4/2019 Ted Strauss curriculum vitae

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Ted [email protected] Av. Clermont, Montreal, QC, H2T2N1(514) 475-2374

Profile

My 10 years of professional experience combines software development and socialsciences (psychology, linguistics, and education). I am also an accomplished artist, and tryto contribute creative ideas to any project. I work well independently and in a group, butmy preference is always to be part of a team. I am a strong communicator and attentive

manager. I give clear constructive criticism and positive feedback to my colleagues. Mygoal is to find a challenging job with a successful company, where I can contribute toexceptional projects as part of a team. I am a Canadian citizen.

Career achievements

Moss Rehabilitation Hospital, Aphasia Center, Philadelphia

Developed a web application for researchers to search and share datarelated to language disability. Off-site contract.

2009-2010

Language Mate, New York CityTechnical lead designing and implementing projects to bridge thelanguage gap in health care. Hired and managed off-site coders.

2008-2009

University of Connecticut, Department of PsychologyResearch assistant for a professor studying the psychology of language:

computer models, psych. experiments, research, and writing.

2004-2008

Columbia University, Department of Psychology, New York CityResearch assistant for same professor as above.

2004

Universitt Bremen, Department of Linguistics, GermanyResearch internship programming a language generation system.

2003-2004

MEMS Conference, Montreal & BerkeleyExecutive director of international conference on microtechnology.

2000-2001

Education

New School for Social Research. M.A. in psychologyThesis: formal analysis of youths emotional writing on a self-help website

2007-2010

McGill University. B.A. in cognitive science (comp sci focus)Thesis: computer modeling of French vowel pronunciation

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Technical competency

Java, MySQL, PHP, Javascript, CSS, LISP, Tcl/Tk, Python, C, GUI, XML, XSD,HTML, Apache, Server administration, JSON, various algorithms, Psyscope, Joomla,

Drupal, Moodle, Unix, Linux, E-Prime, eye-tracking hardware, Praat, ProTools, Cubase,BIAS Peak, Max/MSP, Sound engineering, Photoshop, FlashSoftware credits: www.mappd.org, maglab.psy.uconn.edu/jtrace , privatetutor.languagemate.com

Publications, presentations, awards

Effect of representational distance between meanings on recognition of ambiguous

spoken words. (2010) Mirman, D., Strauss, T.J., Dixon, J.A., and Magnuson, J.S.Cognitive Science, 34(1), 161-173.

jTRACE : A reimplementation and extension of the TRACE model of speech perception

and spoken word recognition. (2007) Strauss, T.J., Harris, H.D., & Magnuson,J.S.Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers. Psychonomic SocietyPublications.

Beyond Monosyllables: Word Length and Spoken Word Recognition. Strauss, T.J., &Magnuson, J.S. 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington,D.C. 2008.

Effect of global context on homophone ambiguity resolution. Mirman, D., Magnuson,

J.S., Strauss, T.J., & Dixon, J.A. 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.Washington, D.C.. 2008.

Teasing apart phonotactic probability and neighborhood density in spoken wordrecognition.Mental Lexicon Conference. Strauss, T.J., & Magnuson, J.S. Montreal,2006.

Integration of visual context in spoken word recognition: Homophones and the visual

world. Mental Lexicon Conference. Mirman, D., Strauss, T.J., & Magnuson, J.S.Montreal, 2006.

Speech Perception: Linking Computational Models and Human Data. Strauss, T.J.,Mirman, D., & Magnuson, J.S. 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.Vancouver, Canada. 2006. (6 hour tutorial)

Interaction in Spoken Word Recognition Models : Feedback helps. James S. Magnuson,

T.J. Strauss, Harlan D. Harris.Psychonomic Society 46th Annual Meeting. Toronto,Canada. 2005.

NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship; $34,000. 2007

NSF Grant # BCS0447025, travel award; $1,000. 2005

Arts and music

Lifelong music and art practice. Most recently created and performed in The Duck Wife,an award winning dance rock opera that toured Canada. Artistic resume available.


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