PhD Student
Research Assistant
Teaching Assistant
Biography
I am a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at UIUC. My research is in Computational Psycholinguistics. Prior work of mine includes computational modeling of how emotion and abstraction impacts cross-linguistic language processing. I am primarily interested in how meaning is structured in the mind, both within and across languages.
Research Interests
- Computational Linguistics
- Psycholinguistics
- Computational Modeling
- Bilingualism
- Emotion
- Abstraction
- Embedding Spaces
Education
(2024) B.A. in Linguistics, Minor in Japanese, University of California Santa Barbara
Courses Taught
LING 225 - Language, Mind, and Brain
Highlighted Publications
Kaminaga, J., Wu, J., Yeung, D. & Todd, S., (2025) “Aligning Embedding Spaces Across Languages to Identify Word Level Equivalents in the Context of Concreteness and Emotion”, Society for Computation in Linguistics 8(1): 16. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/scil.3159