about

I am an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University, where I direct the Social Interaction Lab 🌱

We are focused on uncovering the cognitive mechanisms that allow people to flexibly communicate, collaborate, and coordinate with one another. We approach these problems using interactive, multi-player communication experiments and computational models of language and social reasoning.

I was formerly a C.V. Starr Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, I defended my dissertation in the Department of Psychology at Stanford in 2019, I graduated from Indiana University in 2014 with degrees in Mathematics and Cognitive Science, and I spent the summers of 2012 and 2013 as an Edward A. Knapp Undergraduate Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.

I strongly believe that the best work is done in collaboration. Below are just a few of my own collaborator-mentors, and here’s my attempt to articulate an (aspirational) way of thinking about mentorship as a special type of collaborative relationship, which I try to pass forward to my own mentees.