I am an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science and member of the Data Science and AI Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where I direct the Group for Language and Intelligence.

My work aims to understand the computational principles that underlie human language, and how language and cognition might be achieved by artificial models. I approach these questions by combining cognitive science and machine learning, with the dual goals of understanding the human mind and safely advancing artificial intelligence.

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Previously, I was a Research Fellow at the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University. I earned my Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, where I was advised by Roger Levy in the Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory. I earned my B.A. from Harvard in Mathematics and Linguistics.

In my free time, I like making music, writing comedy, and playing SET.