ABOUT
Nice to meet you on the web! I'm David, an Artist and Developer.
By day I am an Application Developer at Rutgers University where I support the Division of Continuing Studies by creating and maintaining bespoke web applications ranging from HR hiring systems to department sign-in systems and reporting.
Before Rutgers, I worked as a Software Engineer at Lymba where I primarily developed web apps integrated with NLP tools and knowledge graphs. My day-to-day really varied, but I was often responsible for UI/UX design, building and maintaining customer-facing applications, ontology building, creating NLP resources, maintaining RESTful Python APIs, client demos, documentation writing, and quality assurance testing.
In a past life I was an avid linguist focusing primarily on syntactic phenomena in hopes of finding the answers to the following questions: (i) what are the fundamental syntactic operations provided by the human language faculty?; and (ii) what constraints are they subject to, and why? This work culminated in my Master's thesis Extraction from Conjuncts in Khoekhoe: An Argument for Cyclic Linearization advised by Erik Zyman at the University of Chicago.
Outside of work, I spend a lot of time cycling, gardening, playing video games, making art of all kinds, and at drag events.
PRO
Web Development
studynorthernpomo.com - Learn Northern Pomo! (link)
davidbyron.info - Custom-built personal website for myself. (you are here)
andreschwab.com - Custom-built personal website for Andre Schwab. (link)
Academics
Extraction from Conjuncts in Khoekhoe: An Argument for Cyclic Linearization - In this thesis, I tackle a violation of the otherwise highly robust Coordinate Structure Constraint, so-called “SLF-coordination”, that has yet to be fully understood. I argue that the cyclic linearization approach to the locality of movement makes it possible to account for this puzzling phenomenon as it manifests in the Khoisan language Khoekhoe. (link)
GALLERY
Ceramics
Photography
