Music technology

A creative-assistant tool for musicians, inspired by Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies. Upload a MIDI file and Harmonym analyzes the chords and key, suggests harmonic substitutions, and gives you a nudge towards alternate directions. Planned: a functional-harmony mode grounded in theory alongside a more exploratory “paintbrush” mode, an extension slider from triads through to 13ths, audio preview of suggestions before you make edits, and a set of Eno-style prompt cards.

Cognitive science research

Designing and running a memory and conceptual-combination study at Professor Steven Frankland's Mind, Brain, & Computation Lab — from experimental design through live data collection with real participants. The work spans stimulus design, randomization logic, and building the technical infrastructure a real study needs to run reliably at scale.

Linguistics research · Class project

Cross-linguistic corpus study comparing how Turkish- and English-speaking toddlers learn to express negation, using naturalistic speech data (CHILDES) and the CLAN analysis software. Turkish children reach for grammatically complex negation forms earlier than expected; English-speaking kids lean on the standalone word “no” before shifting to contractions like don't and can't.

Class project

Built the structural foundations and essential vocabulary of an original constructed language, Ʈalha'ti, for my final project.