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