About me

Hi! I’m Oli.

I’m an incoming postdoc researcher in the LaCNS research group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, working with Andrea E. Martin. I use computational models to understand how humans acquire and process speech and language. Specifically, my PhD research has focused on the challenges posed by the transiency and variability of speech.

I did my PhD in the CDT in Natural language processing at the University of Edinburgh, where I work with Sharon Goldwater, Hao Tang, and Naomi Feldman. Before Edinburgh, I did my undergraduate in information engineering and master’s in computer science at University of Cambridge.

I like books and music and cats, but then who does not? My favorite authors are Elif Batuman and Eileen Chang.