​​​I am a Postdoctoral Scholar in the department of Head and Neck Surgery at UCLA School of Medicine. I received my PhD in Linguistics at the University of Southern California​​​​ in May 2018. My linguistic research on spoken language fits under the scientific umbrella of cognitive science, as the field of phonetics stands at the interface of speech action and perception. The vocal tract actions deployed in spoken language are systematically governed by both contrastive (i.e., meaning encoding) properties of a word's segments and simulatneously by the structured informational aspects of the speaker’s plan, collectively referred to as phrase-level prosody. The goal of my research program is

​​​​While at USC, I was actively participating in various projects as a member of the USC Phonetics and Phonology Group, the Speech Production and Articulation kNowledge group (SPAN), and the Zevin Lab.​​ I am currently the newest bureaucrat at the UCLA Bureau of Glottal Affairs (Facebook: @UCLABGA).