I am a 4th (and final) year PhD candidate and a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, advised by Olaf Hauk and Matt Lambon Ralph. My research explores the neural and computational bases of language and semantics, investigating the learning, representation, and combination of concepts into complex thought. Read more about my research.

Before Cambridge, I completed a Research Masters at the Donders Institute in the Netherlands and worked at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Prior to that, I worked as a research assistant at NYU Abu Dhabi. My undergraduate training was in Linguistics at UCL.

I grew up in beautiful, lush Malaysian Borneo and I am a heritage speaker of Teochew and Hokkien. I picked up a bit of Dutch and Arabic (Modern Standard), though these days I’m more fluent in python. In my free time, I enjoying swimming, reading, and playing the yangqin aka the Chinese santoor.