He is working on text-mining and content management development. His main technical interest is the architecture and design of natural-language processing systems. Recently he has been working on summarization and language identification. He serves a Globalization Technicalfocal point for his development site and is a member of the IBM Globalization Architecture Technical Team. Previously, he worked at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab, focusing on text-classification systems. He has an MA in computational linguistics from the University of Tuebingen, Germany.