I am a researcher in the field of speech and language neuroscience. I completed a PhD at UC Berkeley-UCSF in the Chang lab, where I studied how long-term language experience affects the human brain’s representations of speech sounds, sound sequences, and words. You can read (and hear!) more about my research on this page. I was fortunate to have been supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, the H2H8 Fellowship, and the UCSF Discovery Fellowship.

As an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, I studied Cognitive Science and Computer Science. I was a research assistant in the Knight lab, where I worked with Arjen Stolk on a communication study focused on the neural correlates of non-verbal human communication. You can play the communication game used in this experiment here.

Outside of research, I enjoy public engagement, science communication, and the arts. Check out my work in this space on the public engagement page.

My CV can be found here (updated December 2025). If you’d like to reach out, please contact me at ibg [at] berkeley.edu.