I am an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center where I direct the Psycholinguistics *Lab, help lead the Cognitive Science affiliation, and am a core contributor to the master's program in computational linguistics. I am a computational linguist and psycholinguist doing research on questions intersecting linguistics, computation, and cognition, with a particular focus on language acquisition and language processing.

(BTW: we are hosting NELS 57 at the Grad Center! See more info here)

I build computational and algorithmic models of language learning and mental representation. I also use experimental methods (categorization, coordination, inference, parsing, eye-tracking, perceptual learning, on-line reasoning, etc.) and apply quantitative, corpus, and statistical techniques to answer questions in theoretical linguistics.

Some secondary academic interests include (in alphabetical order): Chinese languages, categorization, concepts, cognitive psychology (attention, learning, memory, representation, you name it), evolution, formal language theory, language variation and change, NLP (before its death post 2020 or so), parsing, perception, phonology, semantics of tense, social learning, and software engineering.

Contact me if you need my CV, or feel free to reach out if there's more you want to know, topics you want to chat about, data you can't find, code you can't get to run, or for general research inquiries (a note though about that last item: I generally do not work on second-language learning, applied linguistics, or probing what LLMs do/don't know).

A few recent papers to highlight