About

My research interests span language acquisition, language contact and convergence, endangered and low-resource language studies, and historical linguistics. When studying individual languages, I focus on phonology and morphosyntax: how a language organizes its sound system, word structure, and grammatical relationships. I’m especially interested in how sociolinguistic and computational methods can support revitalization — and, when that is no longer possible, help document and preserve what remains.

My path here has been deliberately interdisciplinary. I graduated from the University of Maryland in 2018 with a B.S. in Computer Science, a B.A. in Linguistics, and a B.A. in Classical Languages & Literatures, then earned my master’s in Computational Linguistics from the University of Washington in 2023. Today, I build software at Microsoft. That combination of technical and humanities training shapes both the questions I ask and how I approach them.

diem is where those interests meet: an atlas of language profiles and histories, a record of my research, and a personal journal of curiosity-driven essays.