Gasper Begus
UC Berkeley
Gasper Begus is an Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley where he directs the Berkeley Speech and Computation Lab. He is also the Linguistics Lead at Project CETI and a Member of Berkeley's Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences. He graduated with a Ph.D. from Harvard. In his research, he uses human, animal, and machine intelligence to understand the inner workings of AI and to better understand what language is and how it is learned. Gasper combines machine learning and statistical models with neuroimaging and behavioral experiments to better understand how deep neural networks learn internal representations and how humans learn to speak. Gasper has worked and published on sound systems of various language families such as Indo-European, Caucasian, and Austronesian languages.