Welcome to new grad students in 2015-2016!

 We're pleased to announce that five new graduate students will be joining the department next year! Please join us in extending them a hearty welcome.
 
Branden Chan (University of Cambridge)
 
Originally from Sydney, I started my university career at the Classics faculty of Cambridge where I completed my BA and MPhil. My main area of research has been the classical languages and their Proto-Indo-European roots but I’ve also dabbled in corpus linguistics, lexicography and language revitalization. I’m looking forward to approaching new problems through the lens of computation and hopefully developing tools for under-resourced languages in the process.
 
Reuben Cohn-Gordon (Oxford)
 
I'm originally from Cambridge, in the UK, and have ventured across the pond to Stanford to study semantics, computational and lexical, as well as historical linguistics. I'd also like to work on the philosophy of language and cognitive science. Other hobbies include juggling, fencing, Haskell, stuff written in Latin, and the complete works of Dr Seuss.
 
Sabrina Grimberg (University of Buenos Aires)
 
I was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and I've completed my Licenciatura at the University of Buenos Aires. Broadly speaking, my current interests involve morphosyntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and language change. More specifically, I've been exploring Spanish possessives and the historical change that the determiner system has undergone in that language. Outside of linguistics, I enjoy music, dance, and travel.
 

Daisy Leigh (King’s College London, University of Edinburgh)

After finishing my BA in Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh (with a year at Paris 7 – Paris Diderot), I returned to my hometown of London, UK, to complete a Masters degree in Language and Cognition at King’s College. Most broadly, my interests are in semantics, pragmatics, and the cognitive questions that arise from thinking about the conditions of successful dialogue. More specifically, I’m interested in game-theoretic approaches to modeling conversation, ambiguity and vagueness at the lexical level, and dynamic grammars. When I’m not thinking about linguistics, I write short fiction, take photographs, and find an excuse to go hiking.

Sebastian Schuster (University Wien, Stanford)
 
I grew up in Vienna, Austria, where I also did my undergraduate studies in computer science. I just finished my Masters here at Stanford, where I worked on a range of natural language processing tasks and got interested in formal semantics. During my PhD, I hope to continue my work in computational linguistics and do more work in formal semantics and pragmatics. Outside of linguistics, I am interested in politics and enjoy biking. And I have been told that I make good desserts.