I’m an Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics and an Affiliated Faculty at the Department of Computer Science at Boston University. I am also a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google. Previously, I was a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Data Science at New York University. Even before that, I was a PhD student in the Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University, advised by Dr. Paul Smolensky and Dr. Kyle Rawlins. My interests, broadly, are meaning and generalization in human and machine learners. I use computational and experimental linguistic methodologies to explore these areas. Please refer to the Publications section to find out more.
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Updates
- May 2024: Preprint on code & entity tracking is out! Work with Sebastian Schuster and Shubham Toshniwal.
- May 2024: Gave an invited talk at the NSF New Horizons Workshop on Linguistic tests as unit tests and Mathematics Of Neuroscience and AI Convention on compositional generalization in neural networks.
- April 2024: Gave an invited talk at MIT CPL lab on using simulated learners for hypothesis generation.
- April 2024: My students Adi Yedetore and Hayley Ross presented their work at NENLP!
- March 2024: Gave an invited talk at Brown Linguistics on using simulated learners for hypothesis generation and a keynote talk at Scale-LLM Workshop on inverse scaling.
- Feb 2024: Gave an invited talk at UT Austin SXSW on entity tracking in LMs.
- Feb 2024: Abstract on context-dependent privative inferences about A+Ns accepted to ELM 3 (Work with Hayley Ross and Kate Davidson).
- Nov 2023: I was appointed as a CDS Faculty Fellow at BU! 2nd CDS Faculty Fellow position I’ve held :)
- Oct 2023: Presented Abstraction via exemplars? at BUCLD.
Education / Professional experience
- Current:
- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Linguistics
- Affiliated faculty, Dept. of Computer Science
- Faculty Fellow, Center for Data Science
- at Boston University
- Visiting Faculty Researcher, Google
- 2021–2022:
- Faculty Fellow, Center for Data Science, New York University
- 2021
- Ph.D., Dept. of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University
- May-Nov 2020
- Research Intern, Google
- Student Researcher, Google
- Summer 2019
- Research Intern, IBM research
- 2015–2016
- Visiting researcher, NLP*CL Lab, School of Computing, KAIST
- 2015
- M.St. General Linguistics & Comparative Philology
University of Oxford (Ertegun scholar)
- 2013–2014
- Intern developer
Knowledge Extraction/NLP Team, NAVER Corporation
- 2013
- B.A. English Linguistics & Literature
B.A. Linguistics with minor in Computer Science & Engineering
Seoul National University