I received my Ph.D. at Stanford Linguistics in August 2000, and taught in the Linguistics Department at California State University, Fresno during the academic year of 2000-2001.

Between 2001 and March 2003, I was at the University of Düsseldorf, where I was part of the project on the Theorie des Lexikons.

Currently I am at Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), where I am part of the project on Bidirectional Stochastic Optimality Theory.