Jordan Kodner

Jordan Kodner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Stony Brook University, with affiliations to the Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Department of Computer Science, Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation, and the Natural Language Processing (NLP) group. He holds a PhD in Linguistics (2020) and a Master's in Computer and Information Science (2018) from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on computational models of child language acquisition, particularly morphology, and its implications for NLP and language variation/change. He has worked on defense/medical projects at Raytheon BBN Technologies (2013-2015) and interned at Amazon Alexa AI in 2020.

Research interests include computational linguistics, morphology, language acquisition, cognitive science of language, and low-resource NLP. He is writing a book on language change mechanisms grounded in child acquisition models. Teaching includes courses like LIN 260 (Language and Mind), LIN 330 (Language Acquisition), and LIN 537 (Computational Linguistics I).

His work spans multiple languages (e.g., Arabic, Armenian, German, Korean, Spanish) and integrates findings from historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and computational methods. Key contributions include studies on morphological learning, neural network limitations, and language change actuation via acquisition processes.