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 [ˌd͡ʒɑɹˈdiːn] (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:
- I recently gave a talk on BMRS, a restrictive logic for phonological analysis, at FLANN. Here are the slides, and here is a YouTube recording of the talk.
- We hosted another workshop on subregular phonology (and linguistics more broadly) November 14-16, 2025. The website is here.
- 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:
- Vincent Czarnecki. 2027 (expected). (Co-advised with Troy Messick.)
- Chenli Wang. 2027 (expected).
- Hyunjung Joo. 2026. The representation and computation of intonation. [pdf]
- Tatevik Yolyan. 2025. Phonological Expressivity and Learning via Boolean Monadic Recursive Schemes. [pdf]
- 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 spring 2026:
- 16:615:521 Phonology II (Tue, Fri 12:10-1:30pm, 18 Seminary Pl, Rm 108)
Office hours for spring 2026:
TBA