Congratulations are in order for Michael Wilson, who has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in Computational Linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Reno!

Michael completed his PhD in 2021 with a thesis entitled The Syntactic and Semantic Atoms of the Spray/load Alternation. After leaving UMass, he went to work with Bob Frank at Yale, studying patterns of syntactic acquisition and generalization in neural language models; Following that, Michael taught in the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware. At UNR, Michael will contribute to the new BA in Computational Linguistics and continue his research at the interface of linguistic theory, computational linguistics, and language acquisition and processing.