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Who We Are

Adisasmito-Smith, Niken

PhD 2004

Lecturer, Fresno State

Alcantara, Jon

PhD 1997

Senior Technical Project Manager, Nuance Communications

Beckman, Mary

PhD 1983

Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Ohio State University

Bjorndahl, Christina

PhD 2018

Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University

Blake, Katherine

PhD 2022

Language Data Scientist, Amazon Alexa AI

Blyth Jr., Carl

PhD 1990

Associate Professor, Department of French & Italian, University of Texas at Austin

Bradlow, Ann

PhD 1993

Professor of Linguistics & Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Northwestern University

Brandt, David

MA 1997

Brickhouse, Christian

Research Assistant, 2016-2017

PhD Candidate, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University

Brugman, Johanna

PhD 2009

Senior Product Manager. Oracle Corporation

Brunelle, Marc

PhD 2005

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa

Burgdorf, Dan Cameron

PhD 2022

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Burroni, Francesco

PhD 2023

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing (IPS) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Butler, Becky

PhD 2014

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics

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Assistant Director for Southeast Asia Initiatives, Carolina Asia Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Card, Elizabeth

PhD 1983

Chitoran, Ioana

PhD 1997

Professor, University of Paris

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Director of the Language Sciences Doctoral School

Choi, Anna (Seo Gyeong)

2020-2022

Graduate Researcher

Chong, Amui

Graduate Researcher

Christdas, Prathima

PhD 1988

Adjunct Assistant Professor at Molloy College & Queensborough Community College

Crawford, Clifford

PhD 2009

US Postal Service

Das, Debarghya "DD"

Undergrad Research Assistant, 2011-2013

Principal at Menlo Ventures focused on early-stage investments in AI/ML, next-generation infrastructure, and enterprise software.

Davis, Forrest

PhD 2022

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Colgate University

Davis, Katherine

PhD 1991

Senior Manager, AI Specialists, Appen Information Technology and Services

Drigo, Jasmim

2018-2021

Graduate Researcher

Enzinna, Naomi

PhD 2018

Senior User Experience Researcher at UserZoom

Evans, Eric

Phonetics Lab Administrator, 1996-2015

Poet & Musician

Gargash, Scott

Phonetics Lab Research Staff Member, 1992-1995

Principle Software Engineer, Microsoft

Gibson, Masayuki

PhD 2013

Linguist and Speech Scientist, Synfonica LLC

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Actor & Award-winning Independent Film Maker

Goodman, Beverly

PhD 1995

Associate Professor, Eastern Michigan University (retired)

Green, Antony

PhD 1997

Grimes, Joseph

Co-Founder of the Phonetics Lab (1971) & Director of the Phonetics Lab, 1973-1983

Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Cornell University

Team Leader, Wycliffe Bible Translators

Team Leader, SIL International

Guo, Joshua

Research Assistant - Social Networking Game Development, 2023-2024

Aspiring Full-Stack Software Developer & Game Developer

Ham, William

PhD 1998

Senior Principal Speech Scientist, Professional Services, Nuance Communications, Inc.

Han, Jeong-Im

PhD 1996

Professor, Department of English, Konkuk University, Korea

Harmath-de Lemos, Simone

Graduate Researcher

Lecturer & Director, Spanish and Portuguese Language Programs, University of Massachusetts/Boston

Heimisdottir, Linda

PhD 2015

Chief Operating Officer at Miðeind ehf!, which develops Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence technology for the Icelandic language.

Hertz, Susan

PhD 1979

Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, Cornell University and President of Synfonica LLC

Herzallah, Rukayyah S.

PhD 1990

Lecturer, Al Najah National University

Hockett, Charles F.

PhD 1939, Yale University

Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, Cornell University, 1946-1982

Howell, Jonathan

PhD 2012

Associate Professor of Linguistics, Montclair State University

Hume, Beth

PhD 1992

Professor of Linguistics, Vice Provost for Student Academic Success , and Dean of Undergraduate Education, Ohio State University

Hummel, Andrea

2018-2021

Graduate Researcher

Hwang, Hyun Kyung

PhD 2010

Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba

Jessen, Michael

PhD 1996

Senior Scientist, German National Forensic Science Institute, Department of Language and Audio, Bundeskriminalamt, Wiesbaden, Germany

Kang, Eungyeong

PhD 2004

Associate Professor, English Studies Major, Sangmyung University.

Karlin, Robin

PhD 2018

Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Missouri

Kim, Andy

Undergraduate Research Assistant - Web Linguistics Experiments, 2021-2022

Linguistics PhD Candidate, McGill University, Toronto, Canada

Kim, Hankyul

2018-2021

Graduate Researcher

Kim, Hyunsoon

PhD 1997

Professor of Phonology and Phonetics, Department of English, Hongik University

Kim, Seung-Eun

PhD 2022

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at Northwestern University.

Ko, Seongyeon

PhD 2012

Associate Professor of Korean Language and Linguistics,
Department of Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages & Cultures, Queens College, CUNY

Kreitman, Rina

PhD 2008

Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, University of Kent, UK

Kukk, Carley

Undergrad Research Assistant, 2021-2022

Litigation Paralegal at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Kurniawan, Ferdinan Okki

PhD 2018

Lecturer of Linguistics, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia

L'Esperance, Marie-Josee

MA 2015

Communications & marketing manager at College Notre-Dame-De-Lourdes, Longueuil, Quebec & Déménagement et Entreposage La Prairie, Montreal, Canada

Ladd, D. Robert

PhD 1978

Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, The University of Edinburgh

Lamp, Kaelyn

PhD 2024

Post-Graduate Researcher

Laniran, Yetunde

PhD 1991

Senior Systems Admin, Kaiser Permanente

Laufer, Christiane

PhD 1985

Associate Professor of French and Italian, Ohio State University

Lavoie, Lisa

PhD 2000

Linguist, Decision Point Health Care Solutions & ESL Teacher, Approach International Student Center

Lee, Hye-sook

PhD 2008

Instructor, Georgetown University

Leed, Richard

Co-Founder of the Phonetics Laboratory, 1971-1973

Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Cornell University

Letterman, Rebecca

PhD 1997

Professor of Spiritual Formation, Northeastern Seminary, Rochester, NY

Leung, Elizabeth Woon-Yee

MA 1986

Director at Epson America

Li, Jixing

PhD 2018

Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Translation and the Department of Behavior and Social Sciences at City University of Hong Kong.

Long, Yanyu

2018-2021

Graduate Researcher

Lutz, David

MA 2013

Director of Data Science at Capital One, NYC

MacDonald, Brynhildur Stefánsdóttir

PhD 2023

Linguistics Researcher

Maspong, Sireemas

PhD 2023

Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing, LMU Munich

Milliken, Margaret E. & Stuart R.

PhD 1988 (both of them!)

Global Grace Fellowship Bible translators and Bible translation consultants for language groups in Asia

Minamida, Hitomi

PhD 2023

Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages & Cultures, Rochester Institute of Technology

Moore, Corinne

PhD 1995

Engineering Manager, Liberty Mutual Insurance

Nelson, Tobey

PhD 1999

Lecturer and Teacher Trainer, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences

Pittayaporn, Pittayawat (Joe)

PhD 2009

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

Przezdziecki, Marek

PhD 2005

Programmer/Analyst, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) Administration, Cornell University

Renwick, Margaret

PhD 2012

Associate Research Professor, Johns Hopkins Department of Cognitive Science

Riehl, Anastasia

PhD 2007

Director, Strathy Language Unit, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

Roessig, Simon

Post-Doctoral Researcher, 2022-2023

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Phonetics and Phonology, Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, UK

Sainz, Susana

PhD 1992

Sanker, Chelsea

PhD 2016

Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University

Shames, Kayla

Undergraduate Research Assistant 2019

Graduate Student, Department of Linguistics, University at Buffalo

Silva, David

PhD 1992

Provost and Academic Vice President, Salem State University

Stickley, Corbin

Research Assistant - Social Networking Game Development, 2023-2024

Aspiring Software Developer

Suiter, Traci

PhD 2001

Sundita, Christopher

MA 2015

Conversational User Experience Designer, Walmart

Tsuchida, Ayako

PhD 1997

Turk, Alice

PhD 1993

Professor of Linguistic Phonetics, University of Edinburgh

Vogel, Rachel

PhD 2022

Yale Law School

Walter, David

Phonetics and Language Lab System Administrator, 1971-1981

Co-founder, Aldus Corporation (created Pagemaker, first Desktop Publishing Program)

Co-Founder, Visio Corporation (now part of Microsoft)

Wang, Claire

Undergrad Research Assistant - GPU Deep Learning, 2020-2022

Wang, Yue

PhD 2001

Professor of Linguistics, Director of Language and Brain Lab, Simon Fraser University

Wayland, Ratree

PhD 1997

Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Florida

Windhearn, Ryan

PhD 2020

Assistant Professor, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Yi, Hao

PhD 2017

Data Scientist at Microsoft

Yuan, Inna

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Eye-Tracking Experiments, 2021-2022

Linguistics and Computer Science, Columbia University, NYC

Yuan, Jiahong

PhD 2004

Baidu Research, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Zhao, Shuya

Undergrad Research Assistant, 2019-2020

Zhou, Alicia Xiaorong

Undergrad Research Assistant, 2016-2017

Software Engineer, Airbnb

Zhuang, Lingzi

PhD 2022

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream of Linguistics at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

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