Education

Harvard University

Research Associate (2007-present)

Postdoctoral Fellow (2002-2006)

  • NIH NRSA Post-doctoral fellowship (2003-2006): The effect of language on object-substance construal
  • Advisor: Susan Carey

University of Pennsylvania

Ph.D. degree in Psychology (2002)

  • Thesis: Trekking through Space with Whorf
  • Advisor: Lila Gleitman

Stanford University

Visiting student at the Linguistics Department (1995-1996)

  • Advisor: Eve Clark

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

S.B. degree in Computer Science (1993)

  • Thesis: Feature Modifications and Lexical Access
  • Advisor: Kenneth Stevens