Kyle Mahowald

Kyle Mahowald is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin.14 He is a computational psycholinguist with research interests in computation, cognition, quantitative methods, and natural language processing (NLP).2

Mahowald received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Brain and Cognitive Sciences department, where he worked in Ted Gibson's psycholinguistics lab.4 He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University, working with Dan Jurafsky and Dan McFarland.4 Prior to his current position at UT Austin, Mahowald was an Assistant Professor at UC Santa Barbara from 2020 to 2021.3

His research focuses on various aspects of language and cognition, including:

• The application of modern computational language models to understand human language and the mind
• Linguistic efficiency and its role in explaining linguistic behavior and typology
• Quantitative methods in the sciences
• Cognitive science of language

Mahowald is actively involved in the academic community, serving as a member of the Computational Linguistics Research Group at UT Austin and participating in the broader UT Austin NLP community.4 He has published numerous papers in prestigious journals and conferences, contributing to fields such as psycholinguistics, cognitive science, and natural language processing.12