I am a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong.  I received a PhD in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2025.

My research investigates syntax, phonology, morphology, and their interactions through original fieldwork on lesser-studied languages. I focus mostly on A'ingae (or Cofán, ISO 639-3: con), an Amazonian isolate spoken by ca. 1,500 Cofán people in Ecuador and Colombia. Some themes that figure prominently in my work include cyclicity across modules and the relationship between phonological and morphosyntactic domains in agglutinative words. My dissertation describes and analyzes the morphosyntactically mediated interactions between A'ingae metrical stress and glottal stops.

I was awarded the NSF Linguistics Program's Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant #2314344 for Doctoral Dissertation Research: Nominal and deverbal morphology in an endangered language (i.e. A'ingae).

My work has been published in Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Phonology, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, the Journal of Semantics, the Journal of Linguistics, Language and Linguistics Compass (twice), Glossa, Language Documentation and Description, and an edited Language Science Press volume.

I am the director of the University of Hong Kong's Formal Linguistics Forum. 💮