Ben Evans

About

I'm a first-year PhD student at Stony Brook University in the department of linguistics, happily advised by Jeff 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 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).

Software

µFeed Micro RSS feed parser for POSIX [git]

uFeed has no networking, no display capabilities, and does no string manipulation. It extracts meaningful information from a RSS stream into TSV format for convenient use by other programs.

Ex. Open NASA's photo of the day:

curl -s https://www.nasa.gov/feeds/iotd-feed/ | ufeed | dmenu | cut -f2 | xargs firefox

SSRS Simple Spaced Repetition Software [git]

SSRS provides a unified spaced repetition interface which can be accessed through the single header file or through a provided CLI.

Notes

Table of Contents

IWD: WolfieNet-Secure

IWD Configuration for WolfieNet-Secure

If you use IWD, the provided SecureW2 configuration tool might not work for you. Thankfully, you can access the CA Certificate and configure the connection manually!

You will need to download the most up-to-date CA certificate from the non-specific OS SecureW2 page. Replace all strings in angled brackets with information relevant to you. A good place to put your CA cert is /var/lib/iwd/sbu.cer.

/var/lib/iwd/WolfieNet-Secure.8021x

[Security]
EAP-Method=PEAP
EAP-Identity=anonymous@stonybrook.edu
EAP-PEAP-CACert=</path/to/CACert.cer>
EAP-PEAP-Phase2-Method=MSCHAPV2
EAP-PEAP-Phase2-Identity=<Your NetID Username>
EAP-PEAP-Phase2-Password=<Your NetID Password>
EAP-PEAP-ServerDomainMask=*.stonybrook.edu

[Settings]
AutoConnect=true

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