About me
I am a second-year Linguistics PhD student at the University of Toronto. My research areas are psycholinguistics, semantics, and pragmatics. My main advisor is Prof. Daphna Heller, and I also work with Prof. Dave Kush. Previously, I studied in the MPhil Linguistics program at UCL, advised by Prof. Wing Yee Chow. I graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA in Linguistics and a BA in Psychology, where I worked with Prof. Ming Xiang.
I study meaning. A central question guiding my research is: Is there such a thing as “linguistic meaning”, that is independent from and potentially enriched by context? Or is context part-and-parcel of meaning and we can never isolate meaning from the interlocutors’ production and comprehension processes? To approach these questions, I study factors like communicative goals, informativity, and bias. Empirically, I am interested in polar questions, wh-dependencies, and negation.
(Last update: 10/18/2026)