I use computational modeling technology to understand how language processing and language learning 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 are the features of the human learning algorithm that allow us to learn langauge so rapidly? 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.