About

I'm a PhD student at Stony Brook University in the department of linguistics. I like to work on formal learning problems, especially ones involving function decomposition! You can contact me with academic things here.

Recent

• 11/15 I presented recent work with Adam Jardine on learning the decomposition of Simplex and Homomorphic functions at the 2025 Subregular Morphophonology Workshop

Teaching

• LIN 335 Computational Linguistics TA, S2026
• LIN 431 Structure of an Uncommonly Taught Language Co-TA, F2025

Research

• Evans, B. (2025). Learning the Decomposition of Homomorphisms and Simplex ISL Functions. 2025 Subregular Morphophonology Workshop, Rutgers University, United States, November 15 (talk).

Other

Software

• ufeed [git]
  Micro RSS feed parser for POSIX

  uFeed has no networking, no display capabilities, and does no string manipulation. It extracts meaningful information from a RSS stream.

  Ex// Open NASA's photo of the day:
  curl -s https://www.nasa.gov/feeds/iotd-feed/ | ufeed | dmenu | cut -f2 | xargs firefox

• ssrs [git]
  Simple Spaced Repetition Software

  SSRS provides a unified SRS logic which can be accessed by applications or users through either the header file or the included command line interface.

Contact

benjamin [dot] evans (at) stonybrook [dot] edu