I use computational modeling technology to understand how language processing happens in the human mind. Some of the big questions that my research addresses are: What computations does our mind perform when we listen to a sentence? What is universal about the way we process language, regardless of what individual language(s) we speak? And in the age of artificial intelligence, what is unique about the way that
people process language?
Position Update: Fall 2024, I will be joining Georgetown University, in the
Linguistics Department, as an Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics. Stay tuned for more news!
Currently, I am an ETH Postdoctoral Fellow at the ETH in Zürich, Switzerland. I am affiliated with
Rycolab and the
Language Reasoning and Education Lab, both in the Machine Learning Institute. Before moving to Zürich, I was a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University. While there, I was affiliated with the
Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory at MIT and the
Meaning and Modality Laboratory at Harvard. I did my undergraduate work at Stanford University, in the Symbolic Systems program, studying Computational Linguistics, as well as in the Slavic Literature department, where I wrote my
honors thesis on the history of the Esperanto movement in the USSR.
👉 I am giving a talk at the The Fourth International Conference on
Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-4) on August 18, 2023. The title of my talk is Language models as cognitive models: The cases of syntactic generalization and real-time language comprehension