About

I am an Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Cognitive Science at Villanova University and Director of the Language Use and Variation Lab. My research examines language variation and adaptation, bringing together sociolinguistic theory with quantitative and computational methods.

I collaborate across linguistics, cognitive science, and language technology, and I mentor students in research and professional development. Prior to academia, I worked on natural language understanding and localization at Amazon (Alexa and Prime Video), which continues to inform my interdisciplinary work.

I welcome collaborations that advance rigorous, socially grounded language science.

Research Interests

• Language variation and change
• Perception-production link
• Language adaptation and alignment
• Quantitative and computational methods for language data
• Language technology in social context

Recent Academic Projects

• Experiential and neurocognitive mechanisms of language adaptation
• Language Variation and Change in Puerto Rican Philadelphia
• Phonetic Alignment in English as a lingua franca
• EEG Corpus Phrase Search and Connectivity Metrics

Recent Software Development

• eeg-pipeline: A modular EEG pipeline in Python for ERP and time-frequency analyses in cognitive neuroscience
• phonJSD: An R package for information-theoretic metrics of phonological category overlap