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.

Within computer science, my current 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, my 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.