My primary research interests centre around how language constructs and conveys meaning. A major focus of my work explores how the brain combines smaller bits of language into complex linguistic and conceptual structures using behavioural and non-invasive neuroimaging methods (e.g., Law et al., under review). More recently, I have begun to draw insights from neuropsychology and neural network modelling to better understand how neural systems learn and represent concepts. Others and I have also argued for comparative approach to the evaluation of large language models, inspired by animal cognition research.

I am investigating these questions as a PhD student with Olaf Hauk and Matt Lambon Ralph at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge. I I am a postgraduate member of St Catharine's College, home to the Tunku research community. My doctoral research is supported by a Gates Cambridge Scholarship.

Navigating higher education and academia is daunting for many, and particularly so for underrepresented groups. Throughout my training, I am privileged to have had mentors who continue to support and encourage me in my work, education, and beyond. I am committed to promoting access to higher education and academia and to mentoring students from all backgrounds.

I was raised in Malaysian Borneo, a linguistically heterogeneous environment that exposed me to a plethora of linguistic phenomena. I sought explanations by exploring different facets of language research. My undergraduate at UCL introduced me to formal linguistics and the philsophy of language. During which I was a research assistant under Wing Yee Chow and Richard Breheny, studying real-time sentence comprehension and scalar implicature with behavioural and corpus methods and electroencephalography. I spent a summer at Harvard University studying the development of semantic processing under Jesse Snedeker. After graduating I explored and honed my interests in the neuroscience of language by working with Liina Pylkkanen at New York University and Andrea E. Martin at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.