PhD Student Contact Information cassam5@uw.edu Fields of Interest American Sign Language Computational Linguistics Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Pragmatics Second Language Acquisition Semantics Sociolinguistics Biography B.A., Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh, 2020 B.S., Applied Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, 2020 Courses Taught Winter 2025LING 269 A: Swearing and Taboo Language Summer 2024LING 473 A: Basics for Computational Linguistics LING 473 B: Basics for Computational Linguistics LING 473 C: Basics for Computational Linguistics LING 473 D: Basics for Computational Linguistics Spring 2024LING 599 B: Linguistics Colloquium Winter 2024LING 599 B: Linguistics Colloquium Autumn 2023LING 599 B: Linguistics Colloquium Spring 2023LING 234 AA: Language and Diversity LING 234 AB: Language and Diversity LING 234 AC: Language and Diversity Spring 2021LING 200 AA: Introduction to Linguistics LING 200 AB: Introduction to Linguistics