About Me
I've had a love affair with language and meaning for most of my conscious life.
Long before I knew words like psycholinguistics, semiotics, or cognition,
I was captivated by songs, stories, symbols, and the ways people made sense of the world through them.
As a kid, I would listen to Japanese music (Do As Infinity to be exact) and try to piece together meaning before I could even find translations online.
I wanted more perspectives, more languages, and more ways of understanding.
Today, that same curiosity guides my work as an undergraduate researcher at the University of Texas at Arlington.
My interests sit at the intersection of psycholinguistics, semiotics, language acquisition, bilingualism, heritage language development, semantics, pragmatics, and cognitive science.
I'm particularly interested in how people construct meaning, how linguistic knowledge becomes automatic and fluent over time, and how memory and categorization shape how language is learned and used.
I tend to see projects as questions in disguise.
Whether I'm working with AI, exploring NLP tools, building educational experiences, conducting research,
or studying a new language, I'm usually asking some version of the same question: How do people transform information into "understanding"?
Language, research, technology, and creative work are simply different paths back to that same question. I'm still exploring the answer, but I hope my work helps make it
clearer.
