I am a lecturer in Stanford's Symbolic Systems Program. I received my Ph.D. in linguistics from UC Berkeley, where I was advised by Terry Regier. My dissertation, which explores some of the ways in which logographic writing systems may (or may not) be shaped by communicative efficiency pressures, can be found here.

My primary research interests pertain to the relation between language and cognition, writing systems/written language, and how pressures of communicative efficiency shape language. Additional interests include sound symbolism and non-arbitrariness in language, as well as phonology and the psycholinguistics of reading and literacy. I employ computational and statistical/information theoretic methods for much of my work.