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PhD

University of California, Los Angeles

Linguistics

MA

University of California, Los Angeles

Linguistics

Study Abroad

Berlin Consortium for German Studies

BA

University of Pennsylvania

Linguistics and Cognitive Science

High School

Regis High School

A Theory of Vowel Dispersion Based on Probabilistic Modeling of Optimized Speakers and Listeners

Acoustics Sydney 2023

conference poster

The Effect of Conditioned Mergers on Underlying Representations

Penn Linguistics Conference 43

conference talk

A Theory of Vowel System Typology Based on Confusion Minimization

Language (under review)

journal article

Modeling Vowel System Typology Using Iterated Confusion Minimization

Interspeech 2025 (under review)

conference talk and proceedings

TA (50%) for LING 165A: Computational Linguistics I

UCLA Linguistics Department

TA to Laurel Perkins; Running weekly discussion sections and office hours, grading, and responding to student emails.

TA (25%) for LING C211: Intonation

UCLA Linguistics Department

TA to Sun-Ah Jun; Running weekly discussion sections and office hours, grading, and responding to student emails.

TA (25%) for LING 102: Intro to Applied Phonetics

UCLA Linguistics Department

TA to Elise Bell; Running weekly discussion sections and office hours, and responding to student emails.

TA (50%) for LING 165A: Phonology II

UCLA Linguistics Department

TA to Sam Zukoff; Running weekly discussion sections and office hours, grading, and responding to student emails.

TA (50%) for LING 103: Intro to General Phonetics

UCLA Linguistics Department

TA to Sun-Ah June; Running weekly discussion sections and office hours, grading, and responding to student emails.

Junior Computational Linguist

Verbio Technologies

Supported development of intent-classification systems used for call center automation; Processed and formatted training data using bash/python scripts.

Natural Language Understanding Specialist

Cerence

Trained and tested neural-network-based language models for voice control systems for cars.

Computational Linguistics Temp Worker

Linguistic Data Consortium

Supported development of forced aligner; transcribed clinical linguistic data for research into neurodegenerative diseases.

Fulbright English Teaching Assistant

Nicolaus-Cusanus-Gymnasium

Assisted English instruction for students in Germany.

Computational Linguistics Temp Worker

Linguistic Data Consortium

Implemented phonological rule grammars in OpenFst-based package Pynini for ASR of Portuguese dialects.

TA for LING 336: Sound Systems in Use

Penn Linguistics Department

TA to Meredith Tamminga; Moderating in-class undergraduate discussions, assisting students with R scripting during in-class lab time, holding weekly office hours, responding to student emails

German Tutor

Penn Language Center

Tutored students of German at the University of Pennsylvania.

Graduate Research Mentorship

UCLA Graduate Education

Project title: "Modeling Allophony Using Iterated Confusion Minimization"; Advised by Megha Sundara

Graduate Summer Research Mentorship

UCLA Graduate Education

Project title: "Modeling the Great Vowel Shift Using Iterated Confusion Minimization"; Advised by Megha Sundara

Graduate Research Mentorship

UCLA Graduate Education

Project title: "Modeling Human Speech Perception Using Automatic Speech Recognition"; Advised by Megha Sundara

Biggs Graduate Fellowship

UCLA Department of Linguistics

Graduate Summer Research Mentorship

UCLA Graduate Education

Project title: "Testing a Probabilistic Theory of Phoneme Dispersion"; Advised by Bruce Hayes

Fulbright Scholar

Fulbright Germany

Summa cum Laude

University of Pennsylvania

Best Undergraduate Abstract

Penn Linguistics Conference 43

Phi Beta Kappa Inductee

Delta Chapter, University of Pennsylvania