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 |
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Louis Goldstein Professor of Linguistics USC Linguistics 213-821-4150 louisgol@usc.edu |
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Dani Byrd Professor of Linguistics USC Linguistics 213-740-2444 dbyrd@usc.edu |
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Krishna Nayak Professor USC Electrical & Computer Engineering 213-740-3494 knayak@usc.edu |
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Khalil Iskarous Associate Professor of Linguistics USC Linguistics kiskarou@usc.edu |
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Uttam Sinha Professor USC Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery sinha@usc.edu |
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Research Scientist
Reed Blaylock USC Linguistics gblayloc@usc.edu |
phd students
Prakash Kumar USC Electrical & Computer Engineering prakashk AT usc DOT edu |
Sean Foley USC Linguistics seanfole at usc.edu |
Kevin Huang USC Electrical & Computer Engineering kevinyhu at usc.edu |
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Xuan Shi USC Electrical & Computer Engineering xuanshi@usc.edu |
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Yijing Lu USC Linguistics yijinglu@usc.edu |
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Jessica Campbell USC Linguistics jac95339 AT usc.edu |
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Haley Hsu USC Linguistics haleyhsu AT usc.edu |
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Yubin Zhang USC Linguistics yubinzha AT usc.edu |
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Ziwei Zhao USC Electrical Engineering ziweiz@usc.edu |
span alumni
Sungbok Lee (Research Assistant Professor 2002-2017) |
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Asterios Toutios (Research Assistant Professor, 2012-2021) Research Scientist |
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Yoon-Chul Kim (PhD Student 2006-2010, Postdoc 2011-2014) Research Scientist Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea yoonc.kim@samsung.com |
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Rachel Walker Professor of Linguistics UCSC Linguistics rachel.walker@ucsc.edu |
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Michael Proctor (Postdoc 2009-2012) Lecturer Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia michael.proctor@mq.edu.au |
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Nassos Katsamanis (Postdoc 2009-2012) CTO/VP of Engineering, Behavioral Signals Principal Researcher, Athena Research Center nkatsam@gmail.com |
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Sajan Goud Lingala (Postdoc 2014-2017) Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Radiology, University of Iowa sajangoud-lingala@uiowa.edu |
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Johannes Töger (Postdoc 2015-2016) Associate Senior Lecturer, Clinical Physiology Lund University, Sweden johannes.toger@med.lu.sebr |
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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 |
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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 |
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Benjamin Parrell (PhD Student 2007-2014) Associate Professor Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison bparrell@wisc.edu |
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Yinghua Zhu (PhD Student 2010-2015) Software Engineer Google Inc. zhuyinghua1203@gmail.com |
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Christina Hagedorn (PhD Student 2009-2015) Associate Professor City University of New York christina.m.hagedorn@gmail.com |
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Jangwon Kim (PhD Student 2010-2015) Applied Scientist Amazon Alexa jangwok@amazon.com |
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Fang-Ying Hsieh (PhD Student 2011-2016) Linguist Specialist Oben Inc. |
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Cynthia (Yoonjeong) Lee (PhD Student, 2012-2018) Postdoctoral Scholar Department of Head and Neck Surgery, UCLA yoonjeonglee@ucla.edu |
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Caitlin Smith (PhD Student, 2011-2018) Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University |
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Colin Vaz (PhD Student, 2011-2018) Research Scientist Amazon Alexa colinvaz@gmail.com |
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Weiyi "Wayne" Chen (PhD Student, 2014-2019) |
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Tanner Sorensen (PhD Student, 2015-2020) Research Scientist Cobalt Speech and Language |
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Krishna Somandepalli (PhD Student, 2015-2021) Software Engineer Google Inc. |
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Yongwan Lim (PhD Student, Postdoc Scientist, 2015-2022) Software Engineer Apple Inc. |
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Miran Oh (PhD Student, 2016-2021) AI/ML Engineer Apple Inc. |
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Sarah Harper (PhD Student, 2016-2021) Postdoc Scholar UCSF |
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Rahul Sharma (PhD Student, 2018-2023) Scientist Amazon |
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Rachel Alexander (Undergraduate and Master's Research Assistant, 2015-2019) Software Engineer Google Inc. |
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Melissa Xu (Undergraduate and Master's Research Assistant, 2017-2020) Fulbright Scholar |
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Li Hsuan Lu (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2011-2014) Software Engineer IPSY |
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Nimisha Patil (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2015-2017) MBA Candidate Harvard Business School |