I am a third year PhD student at MIT, advised by Josh Tenenbaum in the Computational Cognitive Science group. Previously I've interned at Flatiron Health and Google (for Research, Classroom, and Glass), and did a brief but wonderful stint at the Nancy podcast for WNYC. I am grateful for support from an MIT Presidential Fellowship.

I am interested in how computers can understand language as flexibly as people do, and how people do it in the first place. My research uses program synthesis, planning, and physical simulation to study how language is learned and understood across different world and linguistic contexts.