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Sep 13, 2024 Received PhD in Linguistics from UC Davis.
Apr 05, 2024 Two papers accepted for poster presentation and full publication at CogSci 2024: Noisy-Channel Processing in Standard Arabic Relative Clauses [paper] [poster] & Investigating the Relationship Between Surprisal and Processing in Programming Languages [paper] [poster]
Feb 28, 2024 Abstract accepted for poster presentation at Human Sentence Processing 2024: Eye-Tracking Measures of Processing Difficulty in Standard Arabic [abstract] [poster]
Jun 16, 2023 Paper on my work on human interaction with voice-AI accepted for publication in Frontiers in Computer Science: Comparing alignment toward American, British, and Indian English text-to-speech (TTS) voices: influence of social attitudes and talker guise [paper]
Dec 07, 2022 Awarded the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (NSF DDRI) Grant to support my research on language processing in Arabic. Read a description of the grant and the project here.
Aug 19, 2022 Selected as a Fellow for the UCD Leaders for the Future program 2022-2023 cohort.
Jun 28, 2022 Abstract accepted for poster presentation at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP) 2022 (September 7-9): Expectations and Noisy-Channel Processing of Relative Clauses in Standard Arabic.
Jun 14, 2022 Awarded the Suad Joseph Grant for Research on the Middle East, North Africa, and/or South Asia in the Humanities or Social Sciences from the UCD Department of Middle East/South Asia Studies.
Jun 07, 2022 Awarded the 2022-2023 Steven G. Lapointe Award from the UCD Department of Linguistics.
Apr 12, 2022 Paper accepted for poster presentation and full publication at CogSci 2022 (July 27-30): Expectations and Noisy-Channel Processing of Relative Clauses in Arabic. [paper]
Jan 25, 2022 Abstract accepted for poster presentation at Human Sentence Processing 2022 (March 24-26): Expectations and Noisy-Channel Processing of Relative Clauses in Standard Arabic. [abstract] [poster] [video presentation]
Jun 10, 2021 Received MA in Linguistics from UC Davis.