C.M. Downey
cmdowney.bsky.social
C.M. Downey
@cmdowney.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. in Ling & DataSci/AI, University of Rochester
NLP for low-resource and endangered languages
cmdowney88.github.io
Potential applicants should visit the link here and apply by December 1! If you think this is a good fit for you or someone you know, feel free to reach out by DM or email.
www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/graduate...
Graduate Program
www.sas.rochester.edu
November 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
- ASR for extremely low-resource langs: making it useful and practical for language documentation
- The role of Linguistic relatedness in transfer learning
- "Roll-your-own" modeling frameworks (i.e. community-trained and -maintained solutions)
- LMs for ancient/archaic language understanding
November 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
- Cornell is just down the road
- Department is deeply engaged in fieldwork
If this sounds up your alley, feel free to reach out! And if you know someone who would be interested, please have them look me up. The deadline for applications is December 1

www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/graduate...
How to Apply
The Department of Linguistics accepts fall-entry applications into its PhD and master's programs once per year. There is no spring-entry option.
www.sas.rochester.edu
November 22, 2024 at 4:49 PM
If you still have space I'd appreciate being added 🙂

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C. M. Downey - ACL Anthology
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November 19, 2024 at 4:35 PM