About

I graduated from Amherst College in 2014 with a B.A. in French. While at Amherst, I took linguistics courses at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and l'Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3. I then attended UC Berkeley, where I obtained my M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics, advised by Keith Johnson and Susanne Gahl. 

My academic research focused on code-switching, or the alternation between two languages during bilingual conversation. As a bilingual native speaker of English and 上海闲话 (Wu Chinese - Shanghai dialect) who code-switches daily, I have a personal and academic interest in the perception and production of code-switched speech. 

I also speak fluent French, conversational Mandarin Chinese, and beginner German. In my academic research, I primarily studied Mandarin-English bilingual speech, but I have experience working with the phonetics and phonology of Bantu languages as well, including Shona, Lulamogi, and Tswefap.  Additionally, I worked with French, English, and Spanish data at Facebook, as part of language and dialect expansion (i18n) for natural language understanding (NLU).

Currently, I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and work as an Analytical Linguist at Grammarly. When I am not working on language-related projects, I enjoy baking, reading, traveling, drawing, writing, and playing piano. I also love cats.