Welcome! I am a second-year PhD student in the Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University. My research interests are in experimental and computational neurolinguistics, specifically electrophysiological markers (EEG/MEG) of language processing at the levels of syntax and semantics.
Broadly speaking, I aim to develop an algorithmic account (in the Marrian sense) of how the human brain processes linguistic information. I am sympathetic to functionalist and statistical views of mental grammar, including Cognitive Linguistics, Systemic Functional Linguistics, and Bayesian Cognitive Science.
I am currently advised by Prof. John T. Hale.
I previously did an MA in Linguistics at the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) in Taipei. There, I was a member of the Neurolinguistics Lab directed by Prof. Shiaohui Chan.
Before that, I was an exchange student at Providence University in Taichung, Taiwan, where I studied psycholinguistics with Prof. Yuda Lai. I also used to live in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where I earned my BA in English Communication from Payap University and was advised by Prof. Michael James Day.
To learn more about my professional life, see my CV.
I come from sunny Singapore, an island-nation with four official languages, and I am of Hokkien-Peranakan and Cantonese heritage.
A fun fact about myself is that my great-grandparents were Peter Lim Ah Pin (1890–1943) and Florence Yeo (1887–1962), the namesakes of Lim Ah Pin Road and Florence Road in Kovan, Singapore. My great-grandparents' portraits can be found here.
I sometimes volunteer at The Community School, a non-profit alternative high school in the Remington neighbourhood of Baltimore.
Last updated: 11 June 2025