Welcome to my personal homepage! I am a PhD student in linguistics at Stony Brook University (entered 2025), happily advised by Jeffrey Heinz. I am honored to be a Turner Fellow. I completed my BA in linguistics with honors at Rutgers University in 2025, advised by Adam Jardine. At Rutgers, I graduated an Honors College scholar and member of ΦΒΚ.

My research is centered on formal learning problems and grammatical inference in computational morpho-phonology, with a particular focus on function decomposition and automata theory. You can contact me with academic or research things at benjamin [dot] evans [at] stonybrook [dot] edu. For anything else, you can reach me at mail [at] ben-evans [dot] net.

04 Sep 2026

I'm excited to be the Fall 2026 student organizer for the Stony Brook Mathematical Linguistics R{ecreation|eading} Group (MLRG)!

15 Nov 2025

I presented recent work on learning the decomposition of Simplex and Homomorphic functions at the 2025 Rutgers Subregular Morphophonology Workshop.

LIN 361 Mathematical Methods in Linguistics

Fall 2026

LIN 335 Computational Linguistics

Spring 2026

LIN 431 Structure of an Uncommonly Taught Language

Fall 2025 (Co-TA with Anastasiia Voznesenskaia)

1. Evans, B. (2025). Learning the Decomposition of Homomorphisms and Simplex ISL Functions. 2025 Subregular Morphophonology Workshop, Rutgers University (talk).