He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Linguistics at Yale University, New Haven, CT, in 2007. He is a linguist who is an expert in the field of articulatory phonology. His research emphasis is on the link between speech perception and production, speech error, automatic speech recognition, sign language, phonological development, and their computational modeling. He has been a Research Scientist at Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, since 2007.