I am from Uzbekistan and currently working at IU for the Center for Languages of the Central Asian Regions (CelCAR) and the Center for Turkic and Iranian Lexicography and Dialectology (CTILD). I have been working at IU since 1996 and taught Intermediate level Uzbek at Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European and Central Asian Languages (SWEESL) for 7 summers, then I coordinated Advanced Uzbek Program in Samarkand in 2004. Beginning 2004 I had worked for the Uzbek Dictionary Project. Currently I am a Project Coordinator at the Multimedia Uzbek Dictionary Project and MS Student at the Department of Instructional Systems Technology at the School of Education of Indiana University.