University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., Linguistics, 2010
Dissertation: First language phonetic drift during second language acquisition [pdf]
Committee: Keith Johnson (chair), Susanne Gahl, Sharon Inkelas, Carla Hudson Kam
M.A., Linguistics, 2005
University of Cambridge
M.Phil., English and Applied Linguistics (distinction), 2006
Harvard University
A.B./A.M., Linguistics (highest honors), 2003
Thesis: “High-interest loans”: The phonology of English loanword adaptation in Burmese [pdf]
Committee: Bert Vaux (chair), Javier Martín-González, Jie Zhang
John Harvard Scholar, USA Today Academic All-American, Phi Beta Kappa
Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute
Hosted by Stanford University, 2007
National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute
Hosted by Seoul National University, 2005