Kyle Mahowald PhD

Kyle Mahowald is an assistant professor of linguistics at UCSB, with research interests in computational psycholinguistics. He obtained his Ph.D. in cognitive science at MIT, and his postdoc was in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) group at Stanford, where he focused on how linguistic typology can inform our understanding of deep neural models of language. He also worked for 3 years in industry, as an algorithm developer at Hudson River Trading, and is an avid crossword puzzle constructor and solver.