I am a 4th-year PhD student in Linguistics at McGill University and Mila, and a member of the McGill University Linguistic Department’s Montreal Quantitative and Computational Linguistics Laboratory. I work under the supervision of Professor Siva Reddy, and hold a doctoral grant from the Fonds de recherche du Québec. I’m interested in the ways in which linguistics / cognitive science can inform our understanding of LLMs, and, conversely, how LLMs can inform theories of linguistics. For example: how do LLMs process specific linguistic structures, and how does this compare to humans? Can we use LLMs to annotate, at scale, the ways in which people actually use language? And, more broadly, what systems of meaning representation can we come up with?

Outside of research, I also like to teach, having done so in varying capacities since my time as an undergraduate. And outside of academia entirely, I enjoy reading fiction, going bouldering, listening to a wide variety of music, and watching football/soccer (I support Arsenal, and after years of disappointment, this has finally given me some joy).

How to pronounce my name: [ˈɡɐwˌrəv], [ˈɡɑˌrəv], or anything else vaguely similar.

This website was last updated on 08/06/2026.