Education

• Ph.D. in Linguistics; University of Washington, 2024 
• M.S. in Computational Linguistics; University of Washington, 2023

Biography

Dr. Sara Ng holds a joint position in the Department of Linguistics and the Social Data Analytics Program at Simon Fraser University. Prior to joining SFU she was a Visiting Professor at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. Dr. Ng completed her Ph.D. in 2024 at the University of Washington. Her thesis is titled Prosody in Human Communication and Machine Understanding. “I found a love for computational linguistics at the University of Utah, where I studied Applied Mathematics and Linguistics. Being able to use the coding skills I was developing to empiricially address linguistic problems was so exciting! I was able to start research as an undergrad under the advisement of Dr. Abigail Kaplan, and presented the undergraduate research project she advised at my first ever research conference — the Linguistic Society of America.”

Research Publications

View Ng’s publications here.