Linguist, ESL/EFL Instructor
2021-Present Ph.D., Linguistics, Northwestern
University
Research: Syntax, Psycholinguistics, Acquisition, East Asian
Languages
Advisor: Masaya Yoshida
2019-2021 M.S., Computational Linguistics,
University of Washington
Research: Semantics, Computation, Acquisition
Advisor: Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
Thesis: “Semantic Universals in Bayesian Learning of Quantifiers”
2020 Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Brains Minds and Machines Summer Course
2015-2019 B.S., Linguistics and Computer
Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
Graduation w/ Distinction
Russian Flagship Program, German House
Instructor, Northwestern English Language Programs (ELP)
2021 - Present
Researcher (Russian, Natural Language Processing), University of
Wisconsin Law School 2017 - 2019
Research Intern (Natural Language Processing), RWTH-Aachen
Cybernetics Lab 2018
2021 Northwestern Data Science
Fellow
2018 Phi Beta Kappa
2017 WISCIENCE Summer Research Scholarship,
UW-Madison
2021 Kolina Koltai, Iva Grohmann, Devin Johnson, and
Ella Foley “MASK NARRATIVES PROMOTED BY ANTI-VACCINATION ACCOUNTS
ON INSTAGRAM PRIOR TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC,” in Selected
Papers in Internet Research 2021. Research from the Annual Conference of
the Association of Internet Researchers., 2021, https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/12195.
2020 Devin Johnson, Denise Mak, Drew Barker, and
Lexi Loessberg-Zahl “Probing for Multilingual Numerical
Understanding in Transformer-Based Language Models,” in
Proceedings of the Third BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and
Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP (EMNLP 2020), 2020, https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06666.
2021 Devin Johnson “Semantic Universals in
Bayesian Learning of Quantifiers,” in University of
Washington ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2021, 2021, https://www.proquest.com/openview/35081570810e0eee8eb253c0bff26967/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y.
LING 480: American Academic Culture for Non-Native speakers of English (Summer ’22)
LING 342: Structure of Various Languages - Japanese (Fall ’22)
TGS 509: Foundations of American English and Academic Culture (Summer
’22)
LING 570: Shallow Processing Techniques For Natural Language
Processing (Fall ’20)
CLMS Placement Test (Grading)
Private ESL/EFL tutoring for undergraduate-graduate level English
English
Mandarin Chinese
Japanese
Italian
Russian
German
2022 Teaching English as a Foreign Language,
International TEFL Academy
Training Qualifications UK (TQUK), Level 5 (RQF)
120 course hours
20 hours of in-person practicum