I'm an Associate Professor at the Rutgers Department of Linguistics.
My research uses computational and mathematical approaches to study fundamental questions in phonological theory.
Here is a short FAQ on my last name. Tl;dr: it's pronounced [ˌd͡ʒɑrˈdiːn] (jar-DEEN).
I am currently the Graduate Program Director for the Department of Linguistics. Please direct any questions regarding the graduate program to grad@linguistics.rutgers.edu.You can hear me talk about some issues with AI and language on this episode of SHI's Innovation Heroes podcast.
Research interests:
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Some recent activities:
- This fall I'm teaching a Byrne Seminar on Impossible Language with Ryan Rhodes at RuCCS.
- Rutgers hosted AMP 2024 in November! The proceedings are here.
- We also hosted a workshop on subregular phonology in September 2024. The website is here.
- I helped to organize a special session on 'Computational Models of Learnability and Acquisition of Morphology and Phonology' for the 2025 LSA Annual Meeting in January.
- I am a PI on NSF grant Collaborative Research: Subregular Inference of Morpho-phonology (NSF Award #2416184) with Jane Chandlee and Jeff Heinz.
- Jane Chandlee and I gave a course on formal language theory and phonology at the 2023 LSA Institute at UMass, Amherst!
The course website is public; you can view it here.
PhD advisees:
- Hyunjung Joo. 2026 (expected).
- Tatevik Yolyan. 2025 (expected).
- Huteng Dai. 2024. Phonological learning in the real world. [pdf]
- Eileen Blum. 2023. The effects of non-linear data structures on the computation of vowel harmony. [pdf]
- Nate Koser. 2022. The computational nature of stress assignment. [pdf]
- Chris Oakden. 2021. Modeling phonological interactions using recursive schemes. [pdf]
- Luca Iacoponi. 2018. Phonological agreement by headed feature correspondence. [pdf] (Co-advised with Paul de Lacy.)
Teaching for fall 2025:
- 16:615:525 Phonology Seminar (Tue, Fri 8:30-9:50am, 18 Seminary Pl, Rm 108)
- 01:090:101 Impossible Language (Byrne Seminar) (Wed 2:00-3:20pm, ABW-1100)
Office hours for fall 2025:
TBA