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Hi! I'm Oishani. I double majored in Linguistics and Cognitive Science with Machine Learning as an undergrad at UCSD, and I'll be graduating with a Computational Social Science Masters at UCSD before starting my PhD. I'm interested in computational linguistics, specifically how automatic speech recognition systems perceive dialect variation and multilingual speech compared to human perception. I've worked with Indian and Mandarin accented English speech, and how speech-to-text models perform with these variations. I'm excited to work further on sociophonetic differences for multilingual speakers using computational tools. I enjoy working with people, through teaching, leadership, or community organization. In my spare time, I like to hike, write poetry, and paint.
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Hi, I’m Alex! I earned bachelor’s degrees in Linguistics and Computer Science at the University of Maryland before coming to UCSD. I am primarily interested in children’s acquisition of semantics and syntax, with broader interests in those fields more generally from a formal/theoretical perspective. I’ve been involved with research projects looking at acquisition of verb meanings, wh-islands, and modal verbs, as well as a study of speech input to children with cochlear implants. In my free time I enjoy spending time outside, board games, and anything involving trivia!
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Julia Johnson
Hi, my name is Julia. Prior to joining this program, I earned a bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science from the University of Connecticut, and then spent three years as a lab manager in the Conceptual Development and Social Cognition lab at New York University. At UCSD, I am excited to explore pragmatics acquisition, specifically how and when children begin to understand presuppositions and implicature, and what children's pragmatics production and comprehension errors can tell us about the trajectory of acquiring pragmatic phenomena. In my free time, I like watching horror movies, doing aerial arts, and reading novels. -
Hi! My name is Angie Lee. I graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a B.S. in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, and also a B.S. in Speech & Hearing Science. My primary interest is in phonology. More specifically, I use computational formalisms such as logic to study different phonological processes and address other issues in phonology. I am also interested in phonetics and the phonetics-phonology interface. I'm excited to expand on my prior work by exploring other Austronesian languages, as well as other languages in the broader Southeast Asian region. Outside of academics, I enjoy travelling and listening to music.
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Eitan Price
Hi, my name is Eitan Price. I graduated from Lawrence University with a bachelor's in Linguistics and Mathematics. My research focuses on phonology and phonetics. I am especially interested in contour segments, and my previous work has focused on the representation of diphthongs in phonology. I am interested in expanding on this work using the tools of mathematics and especially formal logic to more concretely characterize the complexity of diphthongs in phonology and phonological patterns more broadly. Outside of linguistics, I have enjoyed rowing, cooking, and writing. -
Xueyun Tian
Hi! My name is Xueyun Tian. I completed my M.Phil. in linguistics at the University of Cambridge and B.A. in Chinese at Peking University. My main research area is experimental phonetics and phonology. Specifically, I am interested in language prosody and its interface with music. My previous research examined how musical abilities interact with L2 rhythmic abilities and text-setting strategies in tone languages. I am eager to further explore these topics through both experimental and field methods. In my free time, I enjoy A Cappella singing and arranging, playing the piano, and writing music for stories and video games.
Welcome new graduate students!
We are pleased to announce the following graduate students will be joining the department in the 2026-27 academic year. Please join us in welcoming them!