Hello! This is Magda.

I’m a PhD candidate in Linguistics at Stony Brook University, affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS) . I work on computational linguistics, with a focus on interpretable, linguistically-informed models of language. My main advisor is Jeffrey Heinz, and I also frequently collaborate with Owen Rambow.

In my dissertation, I develop and test learners that acquire phonological processes from small data by incorporating phonological features, tiers, and complexity bounds.

I have also worked on modeling cognitive states, particularly belief and common ground, including developing a manual for annotating common ground updates in dialogue. I have done fieldwork on the Grassfields Bantu language Shupamem, focusing on lexical and grammatical tone and their interaction.