Hello! I’m a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto Scarborough. I work with Dr. Philip Monahan to study how the brain transforms sounds into meaning, using behavioral and EEG experiments. Before coming to Toronto, I completed my PhD in linguistics and cognitive science at the University of Delaware under the supervision of Dr. Arild Hestvik. I also received training in applied linguistics as a master student at Beijing Foreign Studies University.

I’m currently working on the following questions:

• How do language-specific phonological patterns shape phonetic perception? [poster at SNL2025]
• How does the brain weight temporal and spectral cues to distinguish speech sounds? [poster at SNL2025]
• How is prototypicality information about speech sounds encoded in the brain?