Welcome

I am an assistant professor of Computer Science at Wellesley College.

Research

My research focuses on the intersection of language, cognition, and computation.

Within computer science, much of my work focuses on evaluating large language models for natural language and code generation. What are the abilities and limitations of LLMs? Can LLMs help non-expert programmers? I study these questions from a variety of angles, including model development, benchmarking and evaluation, and human-computer interaction studies.

Within linguistics, I study how context-sensitive meaning is encoded in natural language. I build computational models to understand how conversation participants use knowledge about each other's mental states, and use psycholinguistic methods to understand how people select context-sensitive expressions.

News

o October 2025: ReasoningWeekly accepted to AACL 2025

o September 2025: Speaker-Related Pragmatic Inferences in Personae Formation was accepted to XPrag 2025

o July 2025: I served as the General Chair for SCiL 2025

o July 2025: GlyphPattern was presented at ACL Findings 2025

o June 2025: “I Would Have Written My Code Differently” was presented at the HumanAISE workshop at FSE 2025

o May 2025: Effects of Text-Formatting on Speaker-Related Pragmatic Inferences was presented at CLS 61

o May 2025: CRA white paper on The Future of Programming in the Age of Large Language Models published

o April 2025: Substance Beats Style was presented at NAACL 2025

o April 2025: Components of Character was published in the Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities

o March 2025: Perspective Shift with Korean Motion Verbs was presented at GLOW 47