Hi, my name is Shengyue Xiong (熊声悦), which means "beautiful sound" in Chinese. I am a Ph.D. student in SoundBrain Lab in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern University, advised by Prof. Bharath Chandrasekaran. 

Previously, I received my M.S. in Speech Sciences from University College London (advised by Prof. Patti Adank) and my B.A. in English literature and Linguistics from Shandong University in China. I also worked as a research assistant in THUNLP at Tsinghua University, Laboratory of Phonetics and Speech Sciences at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Language and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Columbia University.

My interdisciplinary background in linguistics, speech sciences, NLP, and cognitive neuroscience has sparked my interest in brain networks underlying human communication. Using a combination of behavioral, neurophysiological, and computational approaches, I want to explore the mechanisms underlying speech perception in complex listening conditions and brain dynamics underlying speech categorization and talker identification.🧠🗣️