About

Xin chào! 你好! Yaama!

I am a linguist specialising in language variation and change, contact linguistics, and computational sociolinguistics. Much of my work is corpora-based and focuses on contact phenomena in bilingual settings. My interest in Linguistics is, however, broad. I have written on a wide range of topics, including variationist linguistics, heritage language, syntax-pragmatic interface in bicultural/bilingual contexts, multilingual NLP, and NLP for spoken low-resource varieties.

I hold a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge and a Masters of General and Applied Linguistics (Advanced) from the Australian National University. I am currently Assistant Professor in Linguistics and Multilingual Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

If you would like to collaborate with me on any areas of my expertise, please feel free to get in touch. Currently, I am particularly invested in projects on language variation and change in ethnically diverse communities, sociolinguistically informed NLP, and innovative technologies that can accommodate multilingual speakers.