I am an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Data Science at New York University, and a Research Scientist at Google. At NYU, I direct the Computation and Psycholinguistics Lab; we use behavioral experiments and computational methods to study how people learn and understand language. We also develop methods for evaluating, understanding and improving language models for AI.

I am accepting PhD students for Fall 2026 through either Linguistics or Data Science; I look forward to reading your applications! Please read the FAQ before contacting me about PhD admissions.

I am currently hiring one or more post-docs to work on projects related to cognitively plausible LLMs, through interpretability, training data, and modeling. Apply here.

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