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

I grew up in Chongqing, a city in southern China. I studied economics at Peking Univ., where I developed an interest in linguistics that eventually outweighed my interest in microeconomics and game theory. I then went to UCL and had the pleasure of studying and researching with the amazing phonologists there. The two years in England was a time for which I feel a deep sense of hiraeth.

Now I live in Cambridge, MA, and I like how the seasons and the weather change here. When I’m not doing linguistics, I enjoy photography (cityscapes, nature, and portraits), hiking, woodcarving, playing Nintendo games, watching TV series, cooking, reading, and writing.