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.
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:
- 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. Stay tuned for more details.
- 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:
- 615:525 Phonology Seminar (Tue, Fri 8:30-9:50am, 18 Seminary Pl, Rm 108)
Office hours for fall 2025:
TBA