About

A picture of Laurie, a white person with blue eyes and short purple hair.

Hi, I’m Laurie! I’m very happy to live in Edinburgh where I work as a Senior Research Engineer at the Common Crawl Foundation. Prior to starting with CCF, I did a PhD and a postdoc with the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation. My research interests include creating reliable multilingual corpora, machine translation, and extending NLP technologies to under-served languages.

Workwise, I enjoy learning new skills, puzzling things out, and coming up with meaningful solutions to technical problems. I did various things before I came to NLP: I have experience as a big-data analyst, data scientist, linguist (languages not linguistics!), and statistical economist inter alia. I can also organise a nice day out on the Scottish hills (weather permitting).

The best way to contact me is Bluesky or by email: laurie [AT] commoncrawl [DOT] org. I’m always happy to hear about interesting projects!