I am an assistant professor in the Wellesley College Computer Science department.

I received my PhD in Linguistics from UMass Amherst in 2021. My dissertation is entitled Shifting the Perspectival Landscape and was supervised by Rajesh Bhatt and Brian Dillon.

I graduated from Swarthmore College in 2014 with a major in Linguistics and a minor in Computer Science. I have also been affiliated with BBN Technologies, where I worked on automatic speech recognition.

You can download my CV here.

My current research focuses on perspective in language: the ways in which people's use of language depends on their point-of-view. This includes context-sensitive expressions that describe space and time (tomorrow, here) as well as the ways in which people express their beliefs and opinions (tasty, that jerk!).

I use a variety of methodologies to look at how people and computers encode meaning in language. I use Bayesian inference techniques to model reasoning about perspective in conversation, conduct web-based experiments to understand human language use, and design probe tasks to assess the linguistic abilities of machine learning models.

Earlier, I worked on semantic documentation of under-resourced languages, in particular, San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec.

This is the section where I give fun facts about myself!

For linguists, a fun fact is: my idiolect also includes "This is the section where I give fun facts about me!", but it is not obligatorily de se-interpreted.

For computer scientists, a fun fact is: I took my first CS class because it was a lab class without any glassware to drop.

For both computer scientists and linguists, a fun fact is: my favorite kind of lambda expression reduction is alpha conversion.

There are no other fun facts about me.