Before graduate school, I spent a year at the University of Maryland Department of Linguistics, where I served as the lab manager of the Linguistics Department's Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lab. During this time, I worked with Colin and collaborators on illusions of grammaticality.
Prior to that, I completed my undergraduate degree in Linguistics with a specialization in Computing at UCLA, where I worked on syntactic prediction and implicit prosody as a research assistant in Jesse Harris' Language Processing Lab and on the neurogenetics of vocal communication in zebra and Bengalese finches in Stephanie White's birdsong lab.
In my free time, you can usually find me sailing on the Monterey Bay, hiking in the redwoods, or spending time with my cats, 