I am a Research Associate at the Spatial and Language Technologies Lab, Carnegie Mellon University. I investigate how structured representations and reasoning processes can be incorporated into neural language models for computational humor generation, LLM evaluation, and multimodal ML. My work focuses on how models capture and manipulate meaning, particularly in settings that require compositionality, contextual interpretation, and nuanced semantic shifts. More broadly, I am interested in developing cognitively grounded approaches to machine intelligence that improve interpretability, generalization, and alignment with human reasoning.