Dr. Michelle Cohn is a Project Scientist in the UC Davis Phonetics Lab, associated with the Department of Linguistics. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics at UC Davis in 2018 and was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Phonetics Lab from 2019-2025. Her postdoctoral training included a 2.5 year Social, Behavioral, and Economics (SBE) Postdoctoral Fellowship through the National Science Foundation. From 2022 to 2024, Dr. Cohn was also a Visiting Researcher with the Google Responsible AI and Human-Centered Technologies group*. Dr. Cohn is also currently a REC Scholar through the UC Davis Alzheimer’s Disease and Research Center.
Dr. Cohn’s research program aims to uncover the cognitive mechanisms that underlie how people produce, perceive, and learn speech patterns with voice technology. Her work has published in a variety of journals, including Cognition, Language, Journal of Phonetics, Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience (LCN), Journal of Acoustical Society of America (JASA), and Speech Communication, as well as conference proceedings, such as Interspeech, the Cognitive Science Society, International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, and the ACM Conversational User Interfaces. In 2021, Dr. Cohn received the UC Davis Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research, awarded based on research innovation, productivity, and impact.
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