Grace Bengtson and Yadong Liu won best poster presentations
Congratulations to Grace Bengtson and Yadong Liu, our two winners of the Best Student Presentations Awards from this year’s Acoustics Week in Canada, held in Montreal 3-6 Oct 2023: Grace won for her presentation of “Tongue Adjustments in the Chest-Head Register Transition of Operatic Singers” and Yadong for “Timing of Perioral Muscle Suppression in Smiled […]
Mitchi and Starr selected as Public Scholar 2023/2024
The UBC Public Scholars Initiative (PSI) supports “UBC doctoral students whose research extended beyond the academy, and beyond traditional disciplinary approaches, to have a tangible impact for the public good through collaborative, action-oriented, and/or creative forms of scholarship in their dissertation work.” We are especially proud to say that *two* of this year’s PSI cohort […]
MDS Spotlight: Meet Meiyu Zheng, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2023
Prior to entering UBC’s Master of Data Science (MDS) in Computational Linguistics, worked on several AI projects that ignited her interest in the field data science, machine learning and computational linguistics. Read More.
MDS Spotlight: Meet Michelle Yun, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2023
After completing her Bachelor of Arts in Speech Sciences from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Michelle Yun had planned on pursuing a master’s in speech-language pathology. However, Yun became intrigued by UBC’s Master of Data Science (MDS) in Computational Linguistics. Read More.
MDS Spotlight: Meet Kai Maurin-Jones, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2023
Kai Maurin-Jones was looking for a Master’s program that combined his interests in linguistics and quantitative methodologies and found that the MDS Computational Linguistics program was a perfect fit. Read More.
Stanley Nam wins best student presentation award at ICKL 23
Happy to share that our PhD student Stanley Nam has won a “best student presentation” award at the 23rd Biennial Meeting of The International Circle of Korean Linguistics (ICKL 23; see https://sites.google.com/view/ickl2023/home), for his paper “Unsupervised learning of sub-lexica in Korean.” Congratulations, Stanley!
Raiane Salles’ successful PhD defense
Congratulations to the new Dr. Raiane Salles, for a successful PhD defense today! The thesis is entitled “Functional categorization parameters: Argumenthood with functional heads other than D in Carioca Brazilian Portuguese and Pirahã.” Dr. Salles was supervised by Dr. Lisa Matthewson, with committee members Dr. Hotze Rullmann and Dr. Martina Wiltschko (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Also […]
Exciting new publications from the ISRL
The Integrated Speech Research Lab (ISRL), UBC is proud to share some exciting new publications in flagship journals, including Nature’s Scientific Reports. See below to learn more. Shamei, A., Sóskuthy, M., Stavness, I. et al. Postural adaptation to microgravity underlies fine motor impairment in astronauts’ speech. Sci Rep 13, 8231 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34854-w. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-34854-w de Boer, […]
Zara Khalaji Pirbaluti wins best poster presentation
Congratulations to MA student Zara Khalaji Pirbaluti, who won Best Poster Presentation at the UBC Language Sciences Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Research Day last Friday, for the poster “French Liaison’s Exceptionality: A Learning Account.” Great work, Zara!
Dr. Sóskuthy awarded Early Career Researcher Award 2023 by CLA
We are delighted to share that Dr. Márton (Marci) Sóskuthy has been awarded Early Career Researcher Award 2023 by the Canadian Linguistic Association. Huge congratulations, Dr. Sóskuthy!