I am a researcher in the Applied Research Team at the AI Lab of the VUB.
I obtained my PhD in 2024 from the VUB, supervised by Bart de Boer. In my PhD research, I studied the mechanisms behind language change using agent-based models. I applied my models to real-world case studies, in which questions about morphology and language contact were common denominators. My research was supported by an FWO PhD Fellowship Identifying drivers of language change using neural agent-based models and by the Flanders AI Program.
My general interest is the use of computational methods to study language change, from a bottom-up (agent-based modelling, neural networks, crowdsourcing) and a top-down (phylogenetic reconstruction, computational historical linguistics) perspective. I studied Artificial Intelligence at the University of Utrecht and the University of Amsterdam.