Sarah Brogden Payne
/sɛɹə bɹɒgdɪn pɛjn/
I am an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania majoring in Linguistics and Computer and Information Science, graduating in May 2022. Broadly, I am interested in the applications of psycholinguistics to designing more robust Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, as well as the use of cognitive modelling to better understand language acquisition and processing. My research focuses on both the cognitive and computational sides of this problem. In my free time, I am a teaching assistant for Introduction to Computer Architecture (CIS 240). I also sit on the board of several of Penn's anti-violence organizations and am the chair of Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP). A particularly nice coverage of our work can be found in this 34th Street article. I'm originally from Bloomington, Indiana, but I spent much of my childhood in the United Kingdom, including Suffolk, Bristol, and Surrey.