Professional and Creative Accomplishments

Principal Investigator of several knowledge retrieval, extraction, and reasoning tools for major national security and healthcare agencies.

Moscow, Russia-based Director of U.S. State Department technical assistance program for nine countries of Former Soviet Union

Software/IT and medical writer and editor, co-founder of medical publishing company. Author of peer-reviewed articles on Internet and Artificial Intelligence,

Language-enabled analyst and scientific/technical taxonomy developer

Author of major scholarly monograph and peer-reviewed articles on cultural anthropology, folklore, linguistics, artificial intelligence, more.

Poetry and fiction published in US and international journals; solo and joint readings with US and Russian poets

First translation into English of an entire book by major twentieth-century Russian poet (Osip Mandelstam). Translations in multiple anthologies.

Photographs in several private collections, group shows. Creator of Folklands & Folklore website.