{"id":8,"date":"2023-11-19T04:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenny.baclawski.org\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-09-23T03:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:56:55","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kenny.baclawski.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome to the website for Kenneth (Kenny) Baclawski Jr, linguist and origamist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1647\" height=\"1627\" src=\"https:\/\/kenny.baclawski.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/profile.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-116\" style=\"width:409px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-cf9cc583-7b95-42a4-bead-d2f729b68084\">I am a linguist with a Ph.D. in Linguistics from UC Berkeley in 2019. My academic interests are in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, specifically information and discourse structure. I work with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indigenous Cham communities<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cham_language\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Eastern Cham language<\/a>, an endangered language spoken in Vietnam and diaspora communities around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-07f94241-75dd-4eac-9852-ca9905797f02\">As of September 2025, I am an Applied Scientist on the NLP team at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dialpad.com\/dialpad-ai\/\">Dialpad<\/a>. Previously, I was a Language Engineer at Amazon Alexa Smart Home. Feel free to get in touch to talk about linguists in the tech industry!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links is-layout-flex wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-linkedin  wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/kenny-baclawski-5b170395\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M19.7,3H4.3C3.582,3,3,3.582,3,4.3v15.4C3,20.418,3.582,21,4.3,21h15.4c0.718,0,1.3-0.582,1.3-1.3V4.3 C21,3.582,20.418,3,19.7,3z M8.339,18.338H5.667v-8.59h2.672V18.338z M7.004,8.574c-0.857,0-1.549-0.694-1.549-1.548 c0-0.855,0.691-1.548,1.549-1.548c0.854,0,1.547,0.694,1.547,1.548C8.551,7.881,7.858,8.574,7.004,8.574z M18.339,18.338h-2.669 v-4.177c0-0.996-0.017-2.278-1.387-2.278c-1.389,0-1.601,1.086-1.601,2.206v4.249h-2.667v-8.59h2.559v1.174h0.037 c0.356-0.675,1.227-1.387,2.526-1.387c2.703,0,3.203,1.779,3.203,4.092V18.338z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label screen-reader-text\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-73d54e06-deae-40f4-bc14-036ad4030613\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ken.baclawski.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">My father and namesake<\/a>&nbsp;is a retired professor of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University who works on ontology and many, many other topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-a8576b49-7065-4ba4-9ae4-f4c3b7f91889\">Aside from language, you can find me folding origami (<a href=\"https:\/\/origami.baclawski.com\/\">old website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fold.school.cool\">new Instagram<\/a>), playing with my orange cat named Murray, or experimenting with gluten-free baking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4000\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/kenny.baclawski.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/murray1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115\" style=\"width:395px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My previous academic website can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/linguistics.berkeley.edu\/~kbaclawski\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/linguistics.berkeley.edu\/~kbaclawski\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>kenny (dot) baclawski (at) gmail (dot) com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the website for Kenneth (Kenny) Baclawski Jr, linguist and origamist. 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