Welcome! I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate at UC, Santa Cruz interested in phonological theory, phonetics, the languages of Pakistan, and developing computational models of phonological acquisition.
As a phonologist and phonetician, I aim to address several fundamental questions in my research: (1) What are the various forms of representation humans use to store sounds and words in memory? (2) How do those representations interact with each other? (3) What linguistic factors impact those representations? and (4) How are those representations learned?
I approach these questions through original fieldwork, computational and quantitative modeling, and traditional linguistic analysis.
An aspect of my career that is extremely important to me is the preservation and promotion of understudied languages in Pakistan. To this end, I spend a significant portion of my summers traveling to Pakistan to host documentation workshops, conduct fieldwork, and work with communities to develop linguistic materials for use in language promotion and preservation.