Currently, in the experimental field, specifically in the interface of psycholinguistics and speech-language pathology, I am particularly intrigued by language acquisition in multilingual children through their developmental process in reading and environmental stimulus, while also understanding cognitive neuroscience with respect to mental processes and neurological disorders.

         At Florida State University, I am involved in the TP3 Grant (Team-Based Research and Teaching to Prepare Experts in Language, Literacy, and Learning). The TP-3 project will further develop SCSD’s existing doctoral program to create a five-year training program that provides future leaders with specialized knowledge to foster research and innovations that improve outcomes for students with disabilities from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Specifically, the $2.5 million grant will provide living stipends, tuition, and dissertation support as well as networking opportunities to ten doctoral fellows over the next five years. Dr. Wood explained, “This grant will foster more research engagement and expand our collaborations within and outside FSU towards a translational team science focus. The program will promote the coalescence of pedagogy and research experiences to prepare our doctoral fellows to address complex problems.​

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  In my Master's program, I researched the effects of language status on literacy and language development broadly speaking. Specifically, understanding developmental differences in bilingual and monolingual children who have developmental language disorder (DLD). 

        At UCSC, I was a research assistant in the Syntax, Semantics, and Language Processing lab, a group working on how grammar is used in real-time language comprehension. The cohort is interested in understanding the relationship between the form of grammatical constraints and other aspects of cognitive architecture, particularly memory, under the supervision of Stephanie Rich. In the lab I assisted in multiple experiments (i.e. "Reading At Your Own Pace-Memory Interference Language Processing" and "Eye Tracking while reading"). I also worked as a research assistant under the supervision of Matt Wagers. With a team of undergraduate researchers, I co-authored a fascinating project entitled, "The Effect of Reduced Relative Clauses on Agreement Production" which was awarded the Dean's Award and the Chancellor's Undergraduate Research Award in the Spring of 2021. I and a colleague also presented this research at LURC 2021. 

         In my senior year of undergrad, I was a research intern for the Assessment of Learning at UCSC. This internship was through the Chancellor Undergraduate Internship Program, supervised by Dr. Priscilla Sung. As a CUIP intern, I joined a small team of assessment specialists, graduate students, and undergraduate students that developed, implemented, and analyzed new and ongoing research on the assessment of student learning at UCSC. I conducted my own research project called, "Untangling the Impacts of Remote Instruction: Comparing the Writing Experiences and Preparation of Incoming Freshman in 2020 and 2021". In the summer 2022, I continued my position and was promoted to a research assistant and then a project lead. I also presented my research project as a poster presentation and a talk presentation to stakeholders.​

        Outside of the field of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, I participated and completed the UC Santa Cruz College Scholars Program (CSP) which offers a congenial and stimulating academic home for a select group of well-prepared first-year students at UC Santa Cruz. Through this honors program, students can expect to challenge themselves academically, find other students who are similarly motivated, and explore undergraduate research. This enriched program of study includes special courses, seminars, colloquia, and other events during each quarter of the student's first academic year and fall of the student's second academic year.