The basics
I am a PhD candidate in computational linguistics, part of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. My advisor is Suzanne Stevenson.
I'm interested in cognitive models of child language acquisition. Children are remarkably good at picking up the language around them, even though language use is notoriously ambiguous, inconsistent, and complex. I'm particularly interested in early word learning, how language use guides the development of conceptual structures.
I recently completed an MSc here at U of T, where I developed an incremental Bayesian model for discovering syntactic categories from speech.
Not long ago, I was a member of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Waterloo, where I worked on models of biologically plausible neural inhibition.
The banner photo is of Long Beach, near Tofino, BC, one of my favourite chunks of Canada.
I also have a history with solar cars.