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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher, working on the EPSRC-funded Pertinacity grant (2022-2027) and the ERC-funded PAAL grant (2025-2031). I focus on computational linguistics and phonology.

I am primarily interested in how words are structured, how they are processed in the brain and how they can be recognised by computers. In particular, I am interested in:

  • Speech Recognition (focusing on the FlexSR speech recognition system)
  • Stress and metrical structures
  • Analogical Change
  • Affixation and cliticisation
  • Morphological and phonological processing

Previously, I worked at the Surrey Morphology Group as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow researching typological patterns in analogy. I have also worked as an Outreach Officer and Departmental Lecturer in Phonology at the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, responsible for graduate lectures in Phonology, Psycholinguistics and Historical Linguistics, as well as undergraduate Dynamic Phonetics.

I completed my DPhil in 2021 on the phonological typology of sixteen modern Arabic varieties, looking at their syllable structure, stress and affixation. My interest (and proficiency) in Arabic comes from my undergraduate degree in Oriental Studies (Arabic with Turkish) that I completed at Oxford before undertaking my MPhil here in the Faculty of Linguistics.