Office: 245 Beacon, CS Department, 4th Floor
Telephone: 617-552-3928
Email: prudhome@bc.edu
My research area is natural language processing (NLP) in low-resource settings, with a particular focus on endangered languages, child language, and the language of individuals with conditions impacting communication and cognition. Before coming to BC, I was an assistant professor at RIT, where I co-founded the Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing lab. Before that I was a postdoc at the University of Rochester, and before getting my PhD at the former OGI (now OHSU), I worked for several years in the language modeling group at Nuance.
I’m also Director of the interdisciplinary Data Science Minor. You can learn all about this minor on the CS Department academics programs web page.
Recent News
12/2025: RA Hunter Scheppat made an amazing tutorial for fine-tuning NLLB to a new language pair.
9/2025: Former postdoc Dr. Eric Le Ferrand started a new postdoc position at U Buffalo with Fabiola Henri.
4/2025: Former RA and award-winning senior thesis student Gavin Zhang will be starting the PhD program at Purdue in the fall. Congrats, Gavin!
4/2025: RA Bo Jiang will be heading to CMU for the MS program in computer vision in the fall. Congrats, Bo!
8/2024: Forner PhD student Robbie Jimerson was featured in a CBC article about using AI to revitalize Indigenous languages.
5/2024: RA and senior thesis student Gavin Zhang was awarded the McCarthy Prize for his senior thesis: A framework for formalizing and automating interpretability. Gavin also won the Neuhauser Award. Congratulations, Gavin!
4/2024: PhD student Robbie Jimerson successfully defended his dissertation: Exploring speech recognition for documenting Seneca, an acutely under resourced Native American language. Congratulations, Robbie!
4/2024: RA Annie Liu was recognized as a Scholar of the College for her senior thesis: Asian American Studies at California’s Public Universities: Strategies and Rhetoric of Asian American Student Activism in the Late 20th Century. Congratulations, Annie!
4/2024: RA Danni Qu will be attending grad school in the fall at Carnegie Mellon.
8/2023: Our NSF DLI proposal Bootstrapping a Corpus of Endangered Languages was selected for funding and will start in September 2023.
8/2023: Dr. Eric Le Ferrand (PhD with Steven Bird at Charles Darwin University) is joining our lab as a Postdoctoral Scholar to work on NLP for endangered languages.
1/2023: Former postdoc Dr. Zoey Liu started as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computational Language Science at the University of Florida.