CV

Last updated: October 2024.

Education

  • 2021 –

    Montreal, Quebec

    PhD (Linguistics)
    McGill University, Department of Linguistics
    • Research on corpus phonetics: language variation and change, speech dynamics, acoustic-articulatory mapping, phonetics/phonology interface.
    • Supervised by Profs. Morgan Sonderegger and Meghan Clayards.
    • Originally admitted to the MA program, fast-tracked in Winter 2023.
  • Sept – Oct 2024

    Glasgow, Scotland

    Visiting Student Researcher
    University of Glasgow, Department of English Language & Linguistics
    • Began a research project on articulatory and acoustic dynamics of rhotic consonants in Scottish English.
    • Supervised by Prof. Jane Stuart-Smith.
  • 2018 – 2021

    Montreal, Quebec

    Bachelor of Arts (Double major in Linguistics and Philosophy)
    McGill University, Faculty of Arts
    • Dean's honour list (highest honour awarded).

Teaching & supervision

  • Winter 2023
    Instructor, Phonetics 1 (LING 330, McGill University)
  • Jan – Aug 2024
    Graduate Student Mentor
    • Part of McGill's Program for Undergraduate Research in Linguistics (PURL).
    • Supervised an undergraduate student (Laurie Dumont) in work to collect and prepare (transcribe and force align) speech data for the AssNat corpus project.

Other academic experience

  • Summer 2024
    Guest Lecturer, Meaning in Language (LING 260, McGill University)
    • Instructor: Irene B. R. Smith.
  • Winter 2024
    Teaching Assistant, Meaning in Language (LING 260, McGill University)
    • Instructor: Dr. Mathieu Paillé.
  • Fall 2023
    Teaching Assistant, Intro to Linguistics (LING 201, McGill University)
    • Instructor: Dr. Andrei Munteanu.
  • Fall 2023
    Grader, Experimental Methods (LING 620, McGill University)
    • Instructor: Prof. Morgan Sonderegger.
  • Fall 2022
    Teaching Assistant, Semantics 1 (LING 360, McGill University)
    • Instructor: Prof. Brendan Gillon.
  • Jan – Aug 2021
    Research Assistant, prosodylab (McGill University)
    • Worked under Prof. Michael Wagner.

Research awards and bursaries

  • 2024 – 2027
    Doctoral Award
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
    • CAD 120,000
  • 2024 – 2028
    Doctoral Training Scholarship (B2Z)
    Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC)
    • CAD 100,000 (reduced to 23,333 due to partial overlap with SSHRC award)
  • 2022 – 2023
    Master's Training Scholarship (B1Z)
    Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC)
    • CAD 17,500
  • 2021 – 2022
    Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master's
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
    • CAD 17,500
  • 2018 – 2019
    J. W. McConnell Entrance Scholarship
    McGill University
    • CAD 3,000

Travel awards

  • 2024
    McGill-Glasgow Travel Award
    McGill University
    • CAD 2,625
  • 2024
    Graduate Student Travel Award
    McGill Post-Graduate Students' Society (PGSS)
    • CAD 750
  • 2023
    Student Travel Award
    Internation Phonetic Association (IPA)
    • GBP 600
  • 2023
    Student Travel Award
    Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM)
    • CAD 350
  • 2023
    Department Travel Award
    McGill University, Department of Linguistics
    • CAD 600

Academic service

Journal peer-review JASA Express Letters (2024: 1).
Conference abstract review Annual Conference on African Linguistics (2023: 10).
Conference organization Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Phonology/Phonetics Workshop (2024).
Reading group organization McGill P* (Phonetics/Phonology) Reading Group (Fall 2022 – Winter 2024); McGill Bayesian Statistics Reading Group (Winter 2024).
Other Graduate student representative at departmental meetings (Fall 2024 – present).

Technical skills

R (advanced) Data wrangling & visualization (tidyverse), statistical analysis (see below), typesetting (Quarto), geospatial data (sf).
Praat (advanced) Acoustic analysis, scripting.
Python (intermediate) Data wrangling & visualization (numpy, pandas, seaborn), machine learning (scikit-learn), forced alignment (mfa), corpus management (polyglotdb).
Git (intermediate) Version control.
bash (intermediate) Simple task automation, navigating/running analyses on remote servers.
LaTeX (beginner) Typesetting.

Statistical methods

  • Generalized additive (mixed) models (intermediate)
  • Functional principal components analysis (intermediate)
  • Frequentist linear/logistic mixed effects regression (intermediate)
  • Bayesian linear/logistic mixed effects regression (beginner)
  • Causal inference (beginner)

Languages

  • English (native), French (near-native), German (advanced), Italian (heritage).