About Me:

I am a fourth-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 learn more about my teaching philosophy, here to view some of my sample course materials, and here to read some sample evaluations.

Updates:

2/24/25: I will be presenting an invited talk at Proseminar [LIN 201]. The talk is titled: "From qualifying paper to journal article: Tips and tricks for successful publication".

1/15/25: Georgia Zellou and I have a new paper that has been accepted in Glossa Psycholinguistics! The paper is titled: "When multiple talker exposure is necessary for cross-talker generalization: Insights into the emergence of sociolinguistic perception".

1/10/25: I presented "When multiple talker exposure is necessary for cross-talker generalization: Social co-variation facilitates the emergence of sociolinguistic perception" at the 2025 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting in Philadelphia along with Georgia Zellou.

1/6/25: For the Winter 2025 quarter, I will work as a teaching assistant for LIN 001 (Introduction to Linguistics).

11/9/24: I presented "When multiple talker exposure is necessary for cross-talker generalization: Social co-variation facilitates the emergence of sociolinguistic perception" at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 52 in Miami Beach along with Georgia Zellou.

11/9/24: Bayleigh Baldwin presented "'Country Talk' in California's Napa Valley" at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 52 in Miami Beach along with me and Georgia Zellou!

9/24/24: For the Fall 2024 quarter, I will work as a teaching assistant for LIN 103A (Linguistic Analysis I: Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology).

6/24/24: For the Summer 2024 quarter, I will work as a teaching assistant for LIN 001Y (Introduction to Linguistics).

5/24/24: I presented "Effects of speaking style and apparent talker variability on perceptual adaptation to L2-accented speech" at the 10th Annual UC Davis Symposium on Language Research in Davis, California.

5/8/24: Jules Vonessen, Michelle Cohn, Georgia Zellou and I have a new paper that has been published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America! The paper is titled: "Comparing perception of L1 and L2 English by human listeners and machines: Effect of interlocutor adaptations". The paper is available at this link.

4/13/24: Georgia Zellou and I have a new paper that has been published in the Journal of Phonetics! The paper is titled: "Being clear about clear speech: Intelligibility of hard-of-hearing-directed, non-native-directed, and casual speech for L1- and L2-English listeners". The paper is available at this link.

4/3/24: I have been selected for membership in the UC Davis chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

4/1/24: For the Spring 2024 quarter, I will work as a teaching assistant for LIN 001 (Introduction to Linguistics).

3/26/24: For my work as a teaching assistant in LIN 001 (Introduction to Linguistics) in Fall 2023, I have been nominated by 10 former students for the UC Davis Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award.