Honors & Media
Awards & Honors (selected)
- NeurIPS top reviewer (2026)
- Rackham Conference Travel Grant (2026)
- Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award nominee (2026)
- NeurIPS Scholar Award (2025)
- Rackham Conference Travel Grant (2025)
Press (selected)
Animal communication work
Relevant papers:
- Approaching an unknown communication system by latent space exploration and causal inference
- Vowels and Diphthongs in Sperm Whales
Selected coverage:
National Geographic — Exclusive: Sperm whale speech has human-like “vowels” (Nov 12, 2025)
The Economist — Sperm whales communicate with vowels (Nov 12, 2025)
Nature (News Feature) — AI is helping to decode animals’ speech. Will it also let us talk with them? (Sep 17, 2025)
The New Yorker — Talk to Me: Can artificial intelligence allow us to speak to another species? (Sep 4, 2023)
The Washington Post — Scientists are starting to decode what sperm whales are saying. (May 7, 2024)
SFGATE — Scientists hail breakthrough in decoding whale communication (Nov 17, 2025)
The New Scientist - We will soon be able to talk with other species. Which will be first? (Aug 25, 2025)
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