Prospective PhD applicants: please read this.
I am Associate Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive
Sciences at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. I direct MIT's Computational Psycholinguistics
Laboratory. Before coming to MIT, I was faculty in the Department of Linguistics at UC San Diego.
My research focuses on theoretical and applied questions in the
processing and acquisition of natural language. Linguistic
communication involves the resolution of uncertainty over a
potentially unbounded set of possible signals and meanings. How can a
fixed set of knowledge and resources be deployed to manage this
uncertainty? And how is this knowledge acquired? To address these
questions I combine computational modeling, psycholinguistic
experimentation, and analysis of large naturalistic language datasets.
This work furthers our understanding of the cognitive underpinning of
language processing and acquisition, and helps us design models and
algorithms that will allow machines to process human language.
My CV.
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