Jonathan Rawski (Ph.D. 2021)
 Jonathan Rawski has accepted a tenure-track position at San Jose State University in California beginning in Fall 2021. Dr. Rawski's research studies the problem of
language learning from a computational and mathematical perspective to show how mathematical
structures underlying natural language can significantly simplify the problem of how
humans come to learn languages. In addition to teaching theoretical and computational
linguistics, Dr. Rawski will develop an MA program in Computational Linguistics at
SJSU.
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Alëna Aksënova (Ph.D. 2020)
 Alëna Aksënova joined Google’s speech recognition team after completing her Ph.D. at Stony Brook in Spring 2020.
Dr. Aksënova’s research at Stony Brook focused on the subregular complexity of phonology
and morphology, drawing from her extensive field work experience. She also created
the Python tool SigmaPie for working with subregular string languages. She has continued
her research at Google with an algorithmic exploration of American English dialects.
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Hyunah Baek (Ph.D. 2020)
 Hyunah Baek started a postdoctoral researcher position in the Language, Cognition,
and Brain Lab at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, following the completion of her Ph.D. at Stony Brook in Fall 2020. Dr. Baek's
research areas span phonology and phonetics, language acquisition, and cognitive linguistics,
paying particular attention to issues of syntax-phonology interface and second language
acquisition.
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Aniello De Santo (Ph.D. 2020)
 Aniello De Santo started a tenure-track position in the Department of Linguistics
at the University of Utah, after finishing his Ph.D. at Stony Brook in Spring 2020. Dr. De Santo’s research
operates at the intersection of computation, theoretical linguistics, and psycholinguistics,
using insights from formal language theory and parsing to attain a better understanding
of how language is processed in the brain.
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Hossep Dolatian (Ph.D. 2020)
 Hossep Dolatian is currently working as a technical editor for ServiceNow in the Bay Area. Dr. Dolatian's research focuses on computational modeling of phonology
and morphology, with a special emphasis on Armenian. He has continued to be active
in academia and holds a visiting appointment at Stony Brook University.
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So Young Lee (Ph.D. 2020)
 So Young Lee started a position as tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department
of English and Affiliate of the Department of Computer Science at Miami University, Ohio, following the completion of her Ph.D. at Stony Brook in Spring 2020. Dr. Lee’s
research areas span across disciplines, including Computational Linguistics, Neurolinguistics,
and Cognitive Psychology, paying particular attention to problems in Syntax and Semantics
as well as their interface with prosody. Dr. Lee will develop an MA program in Computational
Linguistics at Miami University.
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Chikako Takahashi (Ph.D. 2020)
 Chikako Takahashi is starting a position as a full time Lecturer in Japanese Language
at Columbia University in Fall 2021. Chikako has teaching and research experience in a broad range of areas
in Second language acquisition and she is looking forward to bringing insights and
ideas from all of these areas to the task of teaching Japanese. She also plans to
publish parts of her dissertation on how the sound systems of first and new languages
interact and how representations of speech sounds in the brain change over the course
of learning.
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Honaida Ahyad (Ph.D. 2019)
 Honaida Ahyad started a position as a lecturer in Linguistics and Translation at the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2019. She designs and delivers courses in Arabic language and translation, and
she is a recent winner of a Provost’s Faculty Retreat grant for her project “What
wicked students learning a new language need”. Her current research interests include
Arabic as a second language, heritage Arabic, translation, and sociolinguistic challenges
in translation.
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Hongchen Wu (Ph.D. 2019)
 Hongchen Wu has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position atGeorgia Institute of Technology starting in fall 2021. Dr. Wu will be teaching Chinese and Chinese Linguistics in
the School of Modern Languages, which offers a very diverse portfolio of languages
from French to Wolof. Dr. Wu’s research has focused on quantifier scope phenomena
in East Asian languages and associated issues of syntax and semantics.
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