Over the course of my career, I have had the privilege of conducting research across a range of settings and populations, from studying children’s language acquisition at the Emory Child Study Center in my early undergraduate years to collaborating with otolaryngologists, neurologists, and other adult health care specialists to conceptualize and execute patient-centered, applied research projects before and during my M.S. degree program.

In my doctoral program, I combined the skills and knowledge gained from my prior academic and applied research experiences along with my clinical expertise as a certified speech-language pathologist to discern a path forward that optimized my opportunities for success as a cross-disciplinary research scientist. My current research interests lie at the intersection of language/cognition, linguistics, machine learning, and complexity science.