About me

Hi! I’m a third-year PhD candidate in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. My research interests are in child language acquisition, especially phonological development. I am particularly interested in understanding how children learn discrete representations that differ from the continuous surface forms that they hear, and the role of the lexicon in this. I often build/use computational tools for my research. I am advised by Charles Yang, and I am affiliated with the Child Language Lab and the Penn Phonetics Lab.

Before coming to Penn, I completed my B.S. and M.Eng. in Computation and Cognition (Computer Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences; 6-9) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.