My work combines tools from natural language processing, psycholinguistics, and human-computer interaction to advance our understanding of how communicative context shapes language use. My research has direct applications to image accessibility – the challenge of (automatically) generating image descriptions for blind and low vision users.

PhD in Linguistics, Stanford University, 2023 B.S. in Cognitive Science, Osnabrück University, 2017

• Best Paper Award, with co-author Rhea Kapur, for: Reference-Based Metrics Are Biased Against Blind and Low-Vision Users’ Image Description Preferences-- EMNLP 2024: Third Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact
• 2023 NeurIPS Top Reviewer Award (best 10%)
• Stanford Community Impact Award 2022-- for profound dedication to the university and overall Stanford community