I’m very excited that 5 posters were accepted to the UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference for 10 of my undergraduate mentees across three areas of research:
Speech and cognitive impairment
- [Team poster] Undergrads: Noah Michelson, Kelley Ramirez, Gabi Tapia, Tim Keroles, Quinn Alarcon, Macie Gard, Mars Lake, Faith Orellana: Characterizing Speech Changes Associated with Cognitive Impairment in Autobiographical Narratives.
- Additional faculty support: Alyssa Weakley, Sarah Tomaszewski Farias, Jet M.J. Vonk, Chen-Nee Chuah, Oanh Meyer, & Georgia Zellou.
- Undergrads: Tim Keroles, Noah Michelson: Exploring Lexical Predictors of Cognitive Impairment and APOE-ε4 Risk.
- Additional faculty support: Alyssa Weakley, Sarah Tomaszewski Farias, Jet M.J. Vonk, Chen-Nee Chuah, Oanh Meyer, & Georgia Zellou.
- Undergrads: Kelley Ramirez, Noah Michelson: Predicting ASR Word Errors Among Older Adults Varying Cognitive Status and Language.
- Additional faculty support: Alyssa Weakley, Sarah Tomaszewski Farias, Jet M.J. Vonk, Chen-Nee Chuah, Oanh Meyer, & Georgia Zellou.
Speech perception
- Undergrad: Pranaya Rao Ganta: Anticipatory Vowel Nasalization in California English: Exploring the Production-Perception Link with Eye-Tracking.
- Additional faculty support: Georgia Zellou
Computational approaches
- Undergrad: Laasya Babbellapati: Examining how Wav2Vec Embeddings Encode Vowel Duration.
- Additional faculty support: Georgia Zellou
Michelle Cohn 