Welcome! 

I am a Senior Evaluation Scientist at Adobe, working to improve creative GenAI technologies. As part of the Scientific Evaluation team, I lead the scientific evaluation strategy of GenAI audio models (speech, music, sound effects) through large-scale human perception experiments.

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Language & Cognition Lab (PI: Anna Papafragou) in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, where I was also a Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow in the Data Driven Discovery Initiative in the School of Arts and Sciences.

Academic research interests: I am a cognitive scientist studying the relationship between language and cognition. I am interested in (a) the cognitive mechanisms that support the mapping between language and conceptual representations during language processing (comprehension and production) and (b) the abstract representations that are shared (or not!) between language and cognition. My research takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding this relationship, bringing together theories from (psycho-)linguistics and cognitive science, and combining studies of real-time language processing, cross-linguistic investigations, child and adult language learning, and investigations of non-linguistic cognitive processes (perception, memory, attention, etc.).

I received my PhD in Linguistics from the University of Southern California, where I was advised by Elsi Kaiser. My dissertation research – Processing the Dynamicity of Events in Language – investigated how semantic, pragmatic, and non-linguistic information are integrated to update comprehenders' mental representations of events during online language processing. This dissertation project was generously supported by the NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant in Linguistics. [link to award abstract]

Before USC, I received my B.A. and M.A. from Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea.