Robert Munro

/ Rob Munro

Bio

I'm a graduate fellow at Stanford, combining a background in computational linguistics, language documentation, sustainable development and software development into one coherent career (or something resembling it). I work primarily in technologies supporting communications in less-resourced languages, whic includes everything from the power to keep things running to crowdsourcing and macine-learning for extracting rich information from natural language communications.

I love seeing the world - I moved to San Francisco from Sierra Leone, where I was working for the Environmental Foundation for Africa, and have previously called Melbourne, London, Sydney and the Blue Mountains home. I travel as often as possible, usually by bicycle. For my last major trip I cycled through East and Southern Africa:

Africa by bicycle

and I've recently spent a couple of weeks cycling in California - the first tour on my 6th continent!:

The Californian coast

When not working, cycling, traveling or sleeping, I consult for NGOs working in sustainable development, mostly in my capacity as Chief Information Officer for Energy for Opportunity, a non-profit dedicated to promoting solar power across West Africa.