Dr. Cristopher Font Santiago is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. His teaching and research interests include English linguistics, English as a second language, the contemporary role of bilingualism in language acquisition in Puerto Rico, language contact, language change, perceptual dialectology, sociophonetics, natural language processing, and phonology. Furthermore, his research agenda ranges from an exploration of the mechanisms behind the diachronic development of English to, most recently and in collaboration with researchers from multiple disciplines, efforts towards the expansion of an interdisciplinary institutional research program in Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence learning. Cristopher holds a Ph.D. in English Language and Linguistics (2021) with a minor in Spanish Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.