TED Translators

I’m passionate about language and sound because I experience them from many angles. As a teacher, a student, a mentor, and a computer scientist. Teaching and mentoring students has shown me how phonetics and sound can either open doors or create barriers to learning, while computer science gives me tools to study language with precision and creativity. I’m also deeply passionate about biology and animals (especially salamanders like axolotls). I could happily talk for hours about neoteny and regeneration, which has pulled me toward questions at the intersection of sound, life, and computation. Lately, this curiosity has evolved into a strong interest in computational genomics, where patterns, whether in DNA, language, or sound,tell stories about development, identity, and evolution.