I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science at UC Berkeley expecting to finish by the end of this summer (August 2008). I work on a computational model of how children learn the grammar of their native language (which you can read all about here). My areas of research interest fall in two general categories: natural language understanding (getting a machine to understand language the way a human does) and language development (studying how a human acquires a language).

My primary advisor is Jerry Feldman in the Computer Science Department, but I also work with Carla Hudson Kam in the Psychology Department. Because of my advisor, I am also affiliated with the International Computer Science Institute as part of the Neural Theory of Language (NTL) group.

For my personal site, go here.