Sarah Ogilvie is an Australian linguist, lexicographer, and computer scientist.
Ogilvie grew up in Brisbane, Australia. As a graduate student, she spent a few years living with the Lamalama people, an aboriginal tribe [a] on the tip of Cape York in northern Australia. While there, she wrote a dictionary and grammar of their language, Morrobalama, which had never been written down before. [1]
She completed a BSC in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics at the University of Queensland and an MA in linguistics at the Australian National University. [2] She completed her doctorate in linguistics at the University of Oxford. [3]
She used to teach linguistics at Stanford, Cambridge, and Australian National University. She also worked at Amazon's innovation lab in Silicon Valley. [3] While working at Amazon's Lab126, she was part of the team that developed the Kindle. [4] Ogilvie is also a former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. [2]
She currently works as a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics and of Campion Hall at the University of Oxford. [2]
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