My research focuses on three areas: 1) computational linguistics, 2) Indian Buddhist monastic law (vinaya) and 3) historical politeness.

I wrote my dissertation on the concept of etiquette in vinaya (Buddhist monastic law) texts.

I created a general-purpose n-gram extraction utility called aks for analyzing texts in Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese (it works on any languages).

I am especially interested in the concept of disgust and how it relates to the Buddhist worldview in general.

From 2018-2021 I was the principal software engineer for the ERC Open Philology project.

I am currently developing a custom text analysis toolkit called klurp that features a simple extensible genetic algorithm for working with texts in user definable ways.

I sometimes teach classes and workshops on programming and digital humanities at Leiden University.

Recent presentations:

2023 "Automated Alignment of Vinaya Texts: an Evolutionary Strategy." Buddhism and Law 3rd International Conference 2023, Buffalo, Sep 29.

2023 "Cross-linguistic Text Alignment: An Evolutionary Approach." ALICE-SHARK User Meeting, Leiden, June 6.

2021 “Full Stack Language Apps from the Bottom Up: Custom Online Portals for Humanities Research Using Linux, Python, Django and other Open Source Tools.” Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities, Leiden, November 3.

2021 “Computing Buddhist Politeness: Etiquette Algorithms for Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese.” Presented at The Historical Politeness Network virtual lecture series, May 14.