Brikena Liko

Brikena is a PhD student in Computational Linguistics. She holds a Master’s degree in Computational Linguistics from Montclair State University in New Jersey, where she was a Fulbright student, and a Master of Science in Linguistics from the University of Tirana in Albania.

Before focusing more on computational linguistics, Brikena gained over 12 years of experience as a teacher, lecturer, and editor. After the Fulbright program, she worked as a computational linguist at the Academy of Sciences of Albania for two years and continues collaborating with them on a major national project about the Albanian language.

Currently, she is a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Arizona, working with Dr. Amy Fountain.

Main Research Interests:

Computational Linguistics, Human Language Technology, Natural Language Processing for low-resource languages, Generative Grammar 

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brikenaliko/