About

I am a linguist and AI researcher at the Leibniz-Center for General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin, where I am the principal investigator on the project Propositional Attitudes in Large Language Models (PALLM), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the LaSTing priority program.

After completing my Ph.D. in linguistics at Stony Brook University, I first worked at ZAS as a postdoctoral researcher on the project DP-Border (PIs: Artemis Alexiadou & Uli Sauerland).  I then spent about four years working as an AI Engineer at deepset, Synthflow, and RepRisk, before returning to ZAS in 2026.

Outside of work my hobbies include music (I am an avid amateur and former professional jazz pianist, composer, and singer-songwriter); chess; and weightlifting. My pronouns are he/him.