About me (he/him)

I’m a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Computational linguist. I grew up in باجة Beja, Tunisia, then left rather early to Paris, France, where I, among other things, started my journey in linguistics research.

I’m a linguist that uses computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, and psycholinguistics methodologies to investigate a diverse range of cognitive, structural, and sociocultural questions; with a focus on techniques that allow for the quantitative analysis of low resource languages and imbalanced/sample biased data sets. Currently, I’m contributing to multiple collaborative projects:

Code-switching (CS) from Tunisian to French in naturally occurring conversations.¹
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of the US radical-right media.¹
Implicit vocabulary learning by adults exposed to a given language in their ambient environment.
Bisexuality in Experimental Sociophonetics.
Inclusive teaching of computational linguistics to generalists.

I obtained my BA in English linguistics, literature, culture and civilization, and my MA in Linguistics from the Université Paris 8, Vincennes–Saint-Denis. After occupying the position of lecture in the department of French and Italian at UCSB, I joined the Linguistics department as a PhD student, where I work mainly with Stefan Th. Gries and Simon Todd.

I also play guitar, chess, and spend (not enough) time watching films, TV series, and listing to Metal, Grunge, Punk rock, trip-hop… I love cooking and have to often deal with my stealthy cat hunting for (easy) prays around the kitchen.

¹ First author.