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.

04 Sep 2026

I'm excited to be the Fall 2026 student organizer for the Stony Brook Mathematical Linguistics R{ecreation|eading} Group (MLRG)!

15 Nov 2025

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

LIN 361 Mathematical Methods in Linguistics

Fall 2026

LIN 335 Computational Linguistics

Spring 2026

LIN 431 Structure of an Uncommonly Taught Language

Fall 2025 (Co-TA with Anastasiia Voznesenskaia)

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