Hi there!

I’m a computational sociolinguist at UC Davis Linguistics, where I direct the Linguistic Mechanisms Lab. I recently moved from Northwestern Linguistics; students interested in working with me should apply to UC Davis.

I’m interested in natural language processing, social meaning, sociophonetics and interactional variation, Chinese and Japanese linguistics, gesture and embodiment, and applications of linguistic research to social good. I’m particularly interested in using computational methods to understand the linguistic mechanisms of social problems in domains like policing, gun violence, immigration, and mental health.

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope to see you around!

—Rob