About Me
First and foremost I am a linguist and cognitive scientist, and a researcher and postdoc at UC Davis in Emily Morgan's lab. My research investigates how computational complexity influences the behavior of language both during acquisition and during language change. I'm particularly interested in how mutual compressibility influences the outcomes of learning and contact scenarios. The primary tools I use to investigate these questions are neural networks for their functional expressivity. Academics used to be my hobby before it became my job. I've been taking the time to find additional hobbies. Maybe for this reason I've combined my love of programming with my love of academia by running Eudaimoneion, a site I hope to convert into a personal demonstration of research allowing for running feedback.
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In case you wanted a no-nonsense CV, you can find the kind that I submit to job applications below. But feel free to stay around. I'm always adding to the terminal.
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If you're curious about the full scope of my research, you can grab the dissertation that ties all of these projects together below. It collects the experiments, results, and linguistic insights that motivate the work I share here.
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