About Me

I am a language researcher and teacher with a focus on language learning and linguistic data analysis. As a researcher, I use methods from the toolboxes of corpus linguistics, text mining, and machine learning to answer questions about the role of experience and instruction in foreign language learning, how past input shapes future processing, and what speech patterns reveal about our cognitive models of the world. As a lecturer, I teach in the German Department of the Foreign Language School at Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu, and I am involved in a variety of educational activities inside and outside of academia, focusing on vocational training, language and employability, and international exchange. I am currently a DAAD teaching fellow.

I live and work in the Chinese megacity of Chengdu. Chengdu is the capital of the southwestern province of Sichuan and surrounded by the Chengdu Plain known as the “Land of Heaven”.

To the west of Chengdu, tall mountains rise towards the Tibetan Plateau. Explore my collection of personal photos by visiting here.