Dr Michelle White
Data Scientist
Biography:
Dr Michelle White is a Data Scientist at SADiLaR. With a background in child language acquisition, she is interested in understanding how children acquire language and how data-driven methods can shed light on this process. Her work encompasses instrument adaptation for under-researched languages, corpus creation of child language data, and empirical modelling of the impact of sociocultural factors on language outcomes. Her focus is on developing and applying quantitative and computational approaches to language data.
Qualifications:
- PhD General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2018.
- MSc Clinical Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2015.
- BA Psychology and Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2012
Work Experience:
Research Fellow, University of Plymouth.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oslo.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Cape Town.
Researcher and Part-time Lecturer, Stellenbosch University.
Contact details:
Email: Michelle.White@nwu.ac.za