About Me:

I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of California, Davis, where I work in the Phonetics Lab with Dr. Georgia Zellou.

My research interests include phonetics/phonology, speech perception, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and human-computer interaction. Please click here to access my full CV.

I am also passionate about teaching! Please click here to view some of my sample course materials and here to read some sample evaluations.

Updates:

3/4/26: For the Spring 2026 quarter, I will work as a teaching assistant for LIN 111 (Introduction to Phonological Theory).

2/20/26: I will be presenting "Hey Alexa, are you glitching on me?: Investigating phonological adaptation and generalization across human and device guises" at the 20th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon) in Montréal and at the 190th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Philadelphia along with Georgia Zellou.

1/10/26: I presented "Apparent talker variability and speaking style similarity can enhance comprehension of novel L2-accented talkers: Evidence for numerosity and similarity accounts of cross-talker generalization" at the 2026 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting in New Orleans along with Georgia Zellou.

1/5/26: For the Winter 2026 quarter, I will work as a teaching assistant for LIN 103A (Linguistic Analysis I: Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology).

12/16/25: Georgia Zellou and I have a new paper that has been published in Language and Speech! The paper is titled: "Apparent talker variability and speaking style similarity can enhance comprehension of novel L2-accented talkers". The paper is available at this link.

12/4/25: I presented "Apparent talker variability and speaking style similarity can enhance comprehension of novel L2-accented talkers: Evidence for numerosity and similarity accounts of cross-talker generalization" at the 189th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Honolulu along with Georgia Zellou.

11/10/25: I received a Graduate Student Travel Award ($500) from the UC Davis Department of Linguistics to attend the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting in New Orleans.

11/5/25: I received a Student Transportation Award ($150) to attend the 189th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Honolulu.

10/24/25: I gave an invited talk on my adaptation research at UC Berkeley's Phonetics, Phonology and Psycholinguistics Forum Forum (Phorum).

9/25/25: For the Fall 2025 quarter, I will work as a teaching assistant for LIN 001 (Introduction to Linguistics).

6/25/25: Maryam Bamshad, Karina Xie, Rema Rasheed, Kathryn Holt, Grace Assabil-Bentum, and I have a new paper that has been published in Frontiers in Psychology! The paper is titled: "Exposure to subtle dominance cues in asymmetric power relationships activates the stress response and affects decision-making". The paper is available at this link.

5/3/25: I received a fellowship ($5668) from the UC Davis Linguistics Department to attend the 2025 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Summer Institute.

3/29/25: For the Spring 2025 quarter, I will work as a teaching assistant for LIN 171 (Introduction to Psycholinguistics) and LIN 001 (Introduction to Linguistics).

3/25/25: Georgia Zellou and I have a new paper that has been published in Glossa Psycholinguistics! The paper is titled: "When multiple talker exposure is necessary for cross-talker generalization: Insights into the emergence of sociolinguistic perception". The paper is available at this link.

3/21/25: For my work as a teaching assistant in LIN 103A (Linguistic Analysis I: Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology) in Fall 2024 and LIN 001 (Introduction to Linguistics) in Winter 2025, I have been nominated by 14 former students for the UC Davis Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award.