I'm a post-doc in Psychology at UC San Diego. I primarily work in the Rayner Eyetracking Lab but also spend substantial time in the Computational Psycholinguistics Lab.
My email address is my first initial and last name @ucsd.edu and my office is in Mandler 3570.
Research interests
My research involves the use of computational modeling, combined with behavioral experimentation, to deepen our understanding of intelligent behavior in complex tasks – especially human behavior in tasks involving language. Specifically, I use techniques from machine learning, computational linguistics, reinforcement learning, and information theory to build rational models of the optimal solution to the tasks, which I evaluate against human data with converging evidence from controlled behavioral experiments and statistical analyses of large naturalistic datasets. Much of my work focuses on written language comprehension, eye movement control, and the intersection of these two: eye movement control in reading.