He is an elected fellow of the Linguistic Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He then came to the United States on an exchange scholarship to study at University of Rochester for a year, where he became more interested in linguistics.
[1] He then attended graduate school at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he planned to study semantics.
[3] During his study-abroad year at University of Rochester, he met his future wife, Andrea Zukowski.
[5] In 2016, he and Zukowski founded College Park parkrun, a series of free running events in their area.