About me

I am enthusiastic about research and passionate about deriving meaningful insights from data, in particular natural language and behavioral data sets. I have a Master’s degree in Linguistics and have a background in building behavioral experiments and collecting and analyzing human response data.

📔 My thesis on the learning of morpho-phonological patterns was recently published and can be viewed 👉 here (in an e-book format).

Areas of interest:

• visualization of data as a way of storytelling with maps/graphs
• spreadsheets of various size
• archiving and database creation
• using big data in sports
• science outreach to young students
• dictionaries/encyclopedias
• maps and atlas
• making art with R
• evolution of writing systems

Personal Details

I go by the first name Gazelle (aka [ɢazɑle]) and my last name Khalaji in IPA is [xalaʤi].

Fun fact: My last name is a southwestern non-Oghuz Turkic Language. Unfortunately, with less than 20,000 speakers today, it’s in an endangered state. (Disclaimer: I am not a speaker).