About me

I am passionate about research and enthusiastic to apply my project-management and problem-solving skills to new challenges. My academic training and professional experience have equipped me to derive meaningful insights from data using statistical methods, coordinate databases, and manage websites.

Background

My master’s degree is in Linguistics where I have designed behavioral experiments, collected data by building websites for my surveys, and analyzed the human response data.

📔 My thesis on the topic of “learning morpho-phonological patterns” was recently published and can be viewed 👉 here (in an e-book format).

Areas of interest:

  • visualization of data as a way of storytelling
  • spreadsheets of various size
  • archiving and database creation
  • documentation of endangered languages
  • science outreach to young students
  • dictionaries/encyclopedias
  • evolution of writing systems
  • maps and atlas
  • making art with R
  • using big data in sports
Personal Details

I go by the first name Gazelle (aka [ɢazɑle]) and my last name Khalaji in IPA is [xalaʤi].

Fun fact: My last name is a southwestern non-Oghuz Turkic Language. Unfortunately, with less than 20,000 speakers today, it’s in an endangered state. (Disclaimer: I am not a speaker).