Assistant Professor - Department of Linguistics and Institute for 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. (Accepting students for 2027 Fall) Education: Ph.D. Linguistics, Ph.D. Cognitive Science: 2020 – 2026Indiana University Bloomington, USAThesis: Grammars of Scale: How Adjective Interpretation Emerges from Structure and ScaleAdvisor: Thomas Grano, Robert Goldstone M.S. Computer Science (Admitted, coursework completed): 2023 – 2025Indiana University Bloomington, USASpecialization: Deep learning, systems programming, quantum computing, speech processing, and NLP. M.A. Linguistics: 2017 – 2018University College London, UKThesis: Measure Phrase Distribution in Measure ConstructionsAdvisor: Yasutada Sudo B.A. Applied Linguistics: 2013 – 2017Sichuan University, ChinaThesis: Zero Copula in Archaic Chinese: Pause Position in Declarative SentencesAdvisor: Guo Li Research Research Interests: Areas of Interest: Computational Linguistics Language Acquisition Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis Semantics Syntax and Morphology Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics Specific Research Areas: semantics, language cognition, speech processing, language models
