I am a postdoctoral scholar in Department of Linguistics at Stanford University, working with Cory Shain in the CLiMB Lab. I am also a Stanford BIO-X Postdoctoral Fellow. I study computational psycholinguistics and language neuroscience, with a focus on the cognitive representations and computations that enable the human brain to interpret language efficiently, and on how AI and computational language models can inform us about language processing in humans.
I obtained my Ph.D. from Harvard University, working in Kathryn Davidson's Meaning and Modality Lab and Ted Gibson's psycholinguistics lab in MIT's Brain and Cognitive Sciences department. Before that, I was an undergrad at Tsinghua University.
I am always excited to mentor students and collaborate with researchers in linguistics, cognitive (neuro)science, and artificial intelligence. If you are interested, just send me an email!
Current Projects
- Language and Cognition Linguistic illusions and Bayesian noisy-channel explanations
- Computational Language Models Memory constraints in LLMs and their illumination on human sentence processing
- Language Neuroscience Ongoing research on fMRI and MEA methods into language processing mechanisms
Updates
- 08/2026: I am going to attend Society for Neuroscience (SfN) in November, Washington, DC., and present our work on intracortical neural mechanisms in language processing.
- 08/2026: I received Stanford Bio-X Postdoctoral Fellowship that supports my research on intracortical neural mechanisms in language processing, as a collaboration with the Neural Prosthetics Translational Lab at Stanford.
- 06/2026: New preprint on how negative polarity illusions can be explained by resource-rational interactions between working memory and language.