About me

I am an incoming Assistant Professor of Linguistics and the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Georgia, beginning in August 2026. My research lies at the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence.

I study how linguistic structure, experience, and cognitive variation shape the way people learn, represent, and process meaning. My work draws on computational modeling, machine learning, behavioral experiments, and linguistic analysis to investigate questions in semantics, syntax, numerical and magnitude cognition, language learning, and speech processing.

Across these areas, I am particularly interested in how categorical and graded representations emerge, how individuals adapt to linguistic variation, and how computational systems can better account for the diversity of human language and communication.