My name is Hailang Jiang [ˈhaɪ.lɑŋ d͡ʒɑŋ]^[1] (Mandarin: 江 海浪 [t͡ɕʲɑ́ŋ xài.lɑ̂ŋ]). Hailang means ‘sea wave.’

I am a phonologist, and for now I live in Cambridge, MA. I like how the trees mark the changing seasons here. When I’m not doing phonology, I enjoy photography (cityscapes, nature, and portraits), hiking, woodcarving, playing Nintendo games, watching TV series, cooking, reading, and writing.

Before this, I lived in England for a master’s program at UCL; those two years were a time for which I feel a deep sense of hiraeth. Before that, I studied economics at Peking Univ., where I developed a passion for linguistics (and autumns) that eventually outweighed my interest in microeconomics and game theory. Before all that, I grew up in Chongqing, a cloudy and hilly city in southern China.