About

Though I graduated from Amherst College with a B.A. in French, I made heavy use of the Five College Consortium and studying abroad in Paris to take linguistics classes at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and l'Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3. 

Inevitably, I needed to continue studying linguistics, so I landed at UC Berkeley, where I conducted my PhD under the wonderful guidance of Keith Johnson and Susanne Gahl. As a bilingual native speaker of English and 上海闲话 (Wu Chinese - Shanghai dialect) who alternates between both languages constantly, my academic research naturally focused on code-switching. 

Beyond my native languages, I also speak fluent French, conversational Mandarin, and beginner German. My graduate research focused on Mandarin-English bilingual speech, but I've also had the opportunity to work with Bantu languages, including Shona, Lulamogi, and Tswefap. More recently, I worked on ASR quality for 20+ languages at Meta, in internationalization efforts for the Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

When I'm not working, I enjoy linocut, pottery, drawing, and crochet. Otherwise, you can find me binge-reading, pastry-hunting, or spoiling my cat.