Cristina Aggazzotti is an assistant research scientist at the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, where she works on authorship and speaker attribution, or determining who wrote or said something based on patterns in their language use.
Before coming to JHU, she completed a postdoc in Linguistics at the Université du Québec à Montréal, advised by Elizabeth Allyn Smith. She has a PhD in linguistics from Harvard University, where she worked on synchronous tree-adjoining grammar and was advised by Stuart Shieber. She also has a MSc in cognitive and decision sciences from University College London and BAs in applied and computational mathematics and linguistics from the University of Southern California.