Sybren Spit is a PhD student at the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC). Under supervision of Enoch Aboh, Sible Andringa and Judith Rispens, he is investigating the role of awareness in early language acquisition. In this interview we discuss his career, his research interests, and the upcoming SMART workshop Awareness in Humans and Machines, which he will be co-organizing with dr. Sible Andringa.