Hi! I am interested in how language works in brains, minds, and machines.

I will be joining the Relational Cognition Lab led by Dr. Anna Leshinskaya at UC Irvine starting Summer 2025 as a research technician! I’ll be probing language models from both cognitive and AI safety perspectives.

I am currently interested in using language models as tools to study human language processing and cognition in general. More specifically, I am interested in questions like:

• Do human-like linguistic generalizations emerge in language models? Can we use their internal representations to study how their knowledge is structured compared to humans? Can we train human-like language development into models?

• Encoding models have enabled us to map brain responses to model representations – how can we use them to better understand the functional alignment between the brain and language models? How can we creatively and accurately predict brain activity to study how different networks engage in different tasks?

• How does the language network interact with other regions in the brain to perform complex reasoning?

Until recently, I was a member of Language, Intelligence, and Thought (LIT) Lab led by Dr. Anya Ivanova at Georgia Tech, where I was analyzing language models to detect human-like response biases. I was first introduced to neuroAI at Georgia Tech, specifically by a few amazing Psych faculty (Dr. S. Varma, Dr. R. Murty and, of course, Dr. A. Ivanova).

Prior to my master’s at GT, I was an undergraduate at UIUC in the Computer Science and Philosophy program.

News

• (4/2025) My first paper (authored with Dr. A. Ivanova), “Estimating and Correcting Yes-No Bias in LMs”, is accepted to the CogSci 2025 conference! I’ll be presenting it there, come and chat!