About

I'm a PhD student in linguistics at Stony Brook University (entered 2025), happily advised by Jeffrey Heinz. I like to work on formal learning problems, especially ones involving function decomposition! You can contact me with academic things at benjamin [dot] evans [at] stonybrook [dot] edu.

Recent

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

Teaching

Teaching Assistant

Spring 2026
LIN 335 Computational Linguistics
Fall 2025
LIN 431 Structure of an Uncommonly Taught Language

Research

Talks

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