team

SPAN is an interdisciplinary research team at the University of Southern California, bringing together faculty and students from the Viterbi School of Engineering, and the Department of Linguistics. Our work involves collaborations with researchers in the Departments of Psychology and the Keck School of Medicine, and with other research institutions including Haskins Laboratories.

faculty

	Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan University Professor Niki & C. L. Max Nikias Chair in Engineering USC Electrical & Computer Engineering, Computer Science 213-740-6432 shri@usc.edu
	Louis Goldstein Professor of Linguistics USC Linguistics 213-821-4150 louisgol@usc.edu
	Dani Byrd Professor of Linguistics USC Linguistics 213-740-2444 dbyrd@usc.edu
	Krishna Nayak Professor USC Electrical & Computer Engineering 213-740-3494 knayak@usc.edu
	Khalil Iskarous Associate Professor of Linguistics USC Linguistics kiskarou@usc.edu
	Uttam Sinha Professor USC Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery sinha@usc.edu

phd students

	Prakash Kumar USC Electrical & Computer Engineering prakashk@usc.edu
	Jay Park USC Electrical & Computer Engineering jaypark@usc.edu
	Jihwan Lee USC Electrical & Computer Engineering jihwan@usc.edu
	Sean Foley USC Linguistics seanfole@usc.edu
	Hong Nguyen USC Electrical & Computer Engineering hongn@usc.edu
	Kevin Huang USC Electrical & Computer Engineering kevinyhu@usc.edu
	Xuan Shi USC Electrical & Computer Engineering xuanshi@usc.edu
	Jessica Campbell USC Linguistics jac95339@usc.edu
	Haley Hsu USC Linguistics haleyhsu@usc.edu

span alumni

Yubin Zhang
USC Linguistics
yubinzha@usc.edu
Ziwei Zhao
USC Electrical Engineering
ziweiz@usc.edu
Yijing Lu
USC Linguistics
yijinglu@usc.edu
Reed Blaylock
USC Linguistics
gblayloc@usc.edu
Sungbok Lee (Research Assistant Professor 2002-2017)
Asterios Toutios
(Research Assistant Professor, 2012-2021)
Research Scientist
Yoon-Chul Kim (PhD Student 2006-2010, Postdoc 2011-2014)
Research Scientist
Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea
yoonc.kim@samsung.com
Rachel Walker
Professor of Linguistics
UCSC Linguistics
rachel.walker@ucsc.edu
Michael Proctor (Postdoc 2009-2012)
Lecturer
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
michael.proctor@mq.edu.au
Nassos Katsamanis (Postdoc 2009-2012)
CTO/VP of Engineering, Behavioral Signals
Principal Researcher, Athena Research Center
nkatsam@gmail.com
Sajan Goud Lingala (Postdoc 2014-2017)
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Radiology, University of Iowa
sajangoud-lingala@uiowa.edu
Johannes Töger (Postdoc 2015-2016)
Associate Senior Lecturer, Clinical Physiology
Lund University, Sweden
johannes.toger@med.lu.sebr
Samantha Gordon Danner (PhD Student and Postdoc, 2014-2019)
Special Project Manager
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Erik Bresch (PhD Student 2005-2011)
Research Scientist
Philips, Corporate Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
erik.bresch@gmail.com
Prasanta Kumar Ghosh (PhD Student 2006-2011)
Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
prasantg@ee.iisc.ernet.in
Adam Lammert (PhD Student 2008-2014)
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Vikram Ramanarayanan (PhD Student 2009-2014)
Research Scientist
Education Testing Services, San Francisco, CA
vramanarayanan@ets.org
Benjamin Parrell (PhD Student 2007-2014)
Associate Professor
Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison
bparrell@wisc.edu
Yinghua Zhu (PhD Student 2010-2015)
Software Engineer
Google Inc.
zhuyinghua1203@gmail.com
Christina Hagedorn (PhD Student 2009-2015)
Associate Professor
City University of New York
christina.m.hagedorn@gmail.com
Jangwon Kim (PhD Student 2010-2015)
Applied Scientist
Amazon Alexa
jangwok@amazon.com
Fang-Ying Hsieh (PhD Student 2011-2016)
Linguist Specialist
Oben Inc. Cynthia (Yoonjeong) Lee (PhD Student, 2012-2018)
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Head and Neck Surgery, UCLA
yoonjeonglee@ucla.edu
Caitlin Smith (PhD Student, 2011-2018)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University Colin Vaz (PhD Student, 2011-2018)
Research Scientist
Amazon Alexa
colinvaz@gmail.com
Weiyi "Wayne" Chen (PhD Student, 2014-2019)
Tanner Sorensen (PhD Student, 2015-2020)
Research Scientist
Cobalt Speech and Language
Krishna Somandepalli (PhD Student, 2015-2021)
Software Engineer
Google Inc.
Yongwan Lim (PhD Student, Postdoc Scientist, 2015-2022)
Software Engineer
Apple Inc.
Miran Oh (PhD Student, 2016-2021)
AI/ML Engineer
Apple Inc.
Sarah Harper (PhD Student, 2016-2021)
Postdoc Scholar
UCSF
Rahul Sharma (PhD Student, 2018-2023)
Scientist
Amazon
Rachel Alexander (Undergraduate and Master's Research Assistant, 2015-2019)
Software Engineer
Google Inc.
Melissa Xu (Undergraduate and Master's Research Assistant, 2017-2020)
Fulbright Scholar Li Hsuan Lu (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2011-2014)
Software Engineer
IPSY
Nimisha Patil (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2015-2017)
MBA Candidate
Harvard Business School