Hello! I’m a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto Scarborough. I work with Dr. Philip Monahan and Dr. Yoonjung Kang, investigating how the human brain transforms speech sounds into meaning. My research combines behavioral methods and EEG to study speech perception, phonological representation, and cue weighting across languages. 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?