Research Experience
- Lead the full research lifecycle for a Spanish-English code-switched minimal pairs study.
- Develop an end-to-end pipeline for evaluating LLM grammatical knowledge of code-switched minimal pairs.
- Create Python scripts for dataset preprocessing, statistical testing, and visualization of model behavior.
- Compute and analyze surprisal scores using to compare model preferences in grammaticality and acceptability of the code-switched data.
- Evaluate XLM-RoBERTa and Llama 3 on code-switched data and compare predictions against human judgments.
- Supervise and mentor undergraduate research assistants in sentence generation, quality control, documentation, and data management workflows.
Bilingualism in Context Lab (PI: Anne Beatty-Martinez), UC San Diego | Sep 2025 - Present
- Build end-to-end R pipelines for cleaning, restructuring, and analyzing repeated-reference bilingual interaction datasets.
- Compare word embeddings using fastText multilingual vectors, cosine similarity, and t-SNE visualizations.
- Implement mixed-effects regression models to quantify convention formation over repeated interactions.
The Phon Company Lab (PI: Will Styler), UC San Diego | Sep 2025 - Present
- Fine-tune and evaluate a transformer-based ZIPA model for keyword search in unseen low-resource languages.
- Validate audio transcriptions to improve training and evaluation reliability.
- Develop Python pipelines for model training, inference, and evaluation.
- Analyze the performance of the multilingual speech model in low-resource language settings for keyword search.
Independent Research, Northern Arizona University (2022–2025)
- Led the end-to-end research process, including study design, project planning, timeline coordination, task delegation, and team leadership.
- Built a Writing Feedback Corpus (WFC), intended for open-access public release.
- Annotated, transcribed, and coded corpus data; reviewed research assistant work for quality control and consistency.
- Authored the introduction, literature review, methods, and references; contributed to the discussion, limitations, and conclusion sections.
