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Meet our new faculty: Gasper Begus, linguistics

Gasper Begus is a new member of the UC Berkeley faculty

Gasper Begus smiles at the camera

Gasper Begus is a new member of the UC Berkeley faculty. (Photo by Sue Brown)

Name: Gasper Begus
Discipline: Linguistics
Degrees: University of Ljubljana, 2012; Ph.D., Harvard University, 2018
Research interests: I combine machine learning with behavioral experiments and statistical models to better understand how humans learn to speak.
Hobbies: I like to make up fairy tales for my kids.