Curricula Vitae

George Flint

Boston, MA;
Berkeley, CA

Education

University of California, Berkeley
Undergraduate, Class of 2026
Cognitive Sciences, 3.8

Research

Semantic gender associations and grammatical gender in word embeddings
Ongoing
EvLab, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT

Experience

Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

May 2023 - present

Cambridge, MA

Directing first-authorship study on linguistic relativity in large language models
Hypothesis: grammatical gender influences semantic gender associations of nouns in word embeddings space in gendered languages, with promising results thus far
Assisted Interesting Brains study on brain-lesioned but phenotypically normal individuals

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Instructor - University of California, Berkeley

January 2023 - May 2023

Berkeley, CA

‍‍Sole instructor, designer for new Linguistics 198 course on Linguistic Relativity Theory.
Class size: 50‍

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Web Designer - Freelance

November 2018 - present

Boston, MA & Berkeley, CA

‍‍Provided web design, graphic design, & content management systems for over two dozen clients.
Services have been and will continue to be free for nonprofits, and pay-what-you-can (if not free) for individuals; corporations are charged.‍

Areas of Interest

Theoretical linguistics, linguistic relativity, grammatical gender, interaction between linguistic and nonlinguistic networks

LLMs & NLP, word embedding spaces & semantic projection

Neuroplasticity & Entropic Brain Theory, Multiple Demand Network & Language Network, Default Mode Network

Skills

Programming
Python, HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, SQL

Libraries
FastText, Numpy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, pandasDB

Research
LLMs, word embeddings, fMRI scanning and data analysis, theoretical computational linguistics

Languages
English (native), Spanish (fluent), Dutch (intermediate), Esperanto (intermediate)

Licenses & Certifications

CITI Biomedical Research Code of Conduct
May 2023, MIT

CITI Biomedical Research Investigators
May 2023, MIT

MRI Yellowbadge
May 2023, MIT

Personal Interests & Activities

Rowing, boxing (Cal Boxing Team), Muay Thai, marathons, creative/theoretical linguistics, journaling/scrapbooking, Polaroid photography calligraphy, neography, linguistic anthropology

References

Anna Ivanova
Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
annaiv@mit.edu

Carol Jenkins
Co-President and CEO of The ERA Coalition and the Fund for Women’s Equality
carol@caroljenkinsmedia.com
+1 (646) 596-2550