I’m a PhD student in the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), advised by Dr. Sarah Creel. Before that, I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in June 2025, with a double major in Cognitive Science and Linguistics and Psychology.

My research surrounds how adults and children acquire and represent language, especially lexical items, syllables, and morphemes—and how cognitive biases and cross-linguistic variation shape that. I draw on behavioral, theoretical, and experimental approaches, such as functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), corpus analyses, and elicited production.