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:
|
|
|
Recent activities:
- I gave a talk at Computational Psycholinguistics Tokyo @ Tokyo University. Here are the slides.
- Jane Chandlee and I will be giving a course on formal language theory and phonology at the 2023 LSA Institute at UMass, Amherst!
- I presented a tutorial on recursive schemes for phonological analysis at AMP 2022 at UCLA with Tatevik Yolyan, Adam McCollum, and Jane Chandlee. Here is the online version of the tutorial on BMRS, and here are the slides.
- I was part of a panel at the Workshop on Model Theoretic Representations in Phonology at Stony Brook University, and Siddharth Bhaskar presented our work with Jane Chandlee on recursive schemes and subsequentiality.
- Deen Mamadou and I presented at NELS 52 @ Rutgers! Check out the proceedings paper here.
PhD Advisees
- Tatevik Yolyan. 2024 (expected).
- Huteng Dai. 2024 (expected).
- 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.)