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

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
	Xuan Shi USC Electrical & Computer Engineering xuanshi@usc.edu
	Yijing Lu USC Linguistics yijinglu@usc.edu
	Jessica Campbell USC Linguistics jac95339 AT usc.edu
	Haley Hsu USC Linguistics haleyhsu AT usc.edu
	Yubin Zhang USC Linguistics yubinzha AT usc.edu
	Ziwei Zhao USC Electrical Engineering ziweiz@usc.edu

span alumni

	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