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Full CV (Updated 09/25)
Abbreviated CV below last edited: 08/25
Education
(in progress) Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Southern California, 2021 - Present
Advisors: Louis Goldstein and Elsi Kaiser
M.A., Linguistics, University of Southern California, 2021 - 2023
Committee: Elsi Kaiser (chair), Zuzanna Fuchs, Deniz Rudin
B.A., Linguistics, Mathematics, Russian, University of Southern California, 2017 - 2021
Magna Cum Laude, USC Renaissance Scholar
Recent Conferences
Interspeech Conference (26th Meeting)
Haley Hsu, Dani Byrd, Khalil Iskarous, Louis Goldstein (2025). Instantaneous changes in acoustic signals reflect syllable progression and cross-linguistic syllable variation.
Cognitive Science Society (CogSci, 47th Meeting)
Haley Hsu, Elsi Kaiser (2025). Susceptibility to semantic illusions: Attentional consequences of other errors.
Human Sentence Processing (HSP, 38th Meeting)
Haley Hsu, Elsi Kaiser (2025). On semantic illusions and the limits of attention: Fallibility in linguistic processing.
Acoustical Society of America (ASA, 187th Meeting)
Haley Hsu, Dani Byrd, Khalil Iskarous, Louis Goldstein (2024). Phase-locking of oscillatory acoustic signals reflects syllable progression and variation.
Peer-Reviewed Proceedings and Publications
Haley Hsu, Dani Byrd, Khalil Iskarous, Louis Goldstein. (2025). Instantaneous changes in acoustic signals reflect syllable progression and cross-linguistic syllable variation. Proceedings of the 26th Interspeech Meeting, 2025, 96-100. [Link]
Xuan Shi, Yubin Zhang, Yijing Lu, Marcus Ma, Tiantian Feng, Asterios Toutios, Haley Hsu, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth Narayanan. (2025). 75-Speaker Annot-16: A benchmark dataset for speech articulatory rt-MRI annotation with articulator contours and phonetic alignment. Proceedings of the 26th Interspeech Meeting, 2025, 2175-2179. [Link]
Yubin Zhang, Prakash Kumar, Ye Tian, Ziwei Zhao, Xuan Shi, Kevin Huang, Kevin Lee, Haley Hsu, Shrikanth Narayanan, Krishna Nayak, Louis Goldstein. (2025). Co-registration of Real-time MRI and Respiration for Speech Research. Proceedings of the 26th Interspeech Meeting, 2025, 983-987. [Link]
Haley Hsu, Elsi Kaiser. (2024). The fact that these are opinions: Processing and acceptability patterns of subjective vs. objective information embedded under the fact that. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 9 (1): 5739. [Link]
Elsi Kaiser, Haley Hsu. (2023). Generality, genericity and subjective predicates: What propositional attitude verbs, alien viruses, and COVID can tell us. Proceedings of the 33rd Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT), 622-643. [Link]
Yijing Lu, Haley Hsu, Louis Goldstein, Asterios Toutios. (2023). Effect of individual vocal tract geometry on the tongue shaping for American English /ɹ/. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 1042-1046. [Link]
Elsi Kaiser, Deborah Ho, Haley Hsu, Claire Post, Madeline Rouse. (2022). Referring to someone using only their last name: Insights from gender-marked pronouns. Proceedings of the 11th Linguistic Evidence (LE). [Link]
Funding
USC Provost Fellowship, 2021-2026
Provost Undergraduate Research Fellowship Recipient (PURF), Summer 2020
University Research Associates Program Grant Recipient (URAP), Spring 2020
Undergraduate Research Labs
SAIL Lab Member, USC, 2020-2021
Current Lab Groups
Language Processing Lab (Psycholinguistics Lab)
Speech Production And Articulation Knowledge Group (SPAN)
USC Phonetics and Phonology Group, Student Co-Organizer for PhonLunch
Research Experience
RA, PI: Shrikanth Narayanan, Summer 2024 / Spring-Summer 2025
Structured variability in vocal tract articulation dynamics in speech / funded by NSF
RA, PI: Khalil Iskarous, Summer 2024 / Summer 2025
Deep Causal Inference Grounds The Perception of Cognitive Objects in Speech / funded by NSF
RA, PI: Elsi Kaiser, Summer 2022/2023
Subjectivity in language processing: Linguistic and psychological aspects of perspective-taking / funded by NSF
RA, PI: Louis Goldstein, Fall 2020 – Spring 2021 / Summer 2022
Flexible Deep Speech Synthesis through Gestural Modeling / funded by NSF
RA, PI: Asterios Toutios, Summer 2020
Speaker-Specific Articulatory Strategies / funded by NSF
RA, PI: Elsi Kaiser, Fall 2019 – Spring 2021
Persuasiveness of Covid-19 Health Messages: Effects of Psycholinguistic Variables / funded by Social Science Research Council Rapid-Response Grants on Covid-19 and the Social Sciences
Effects of psycholinguistic variations on persuasiveness of COVID-19 health messages / funded by Zumberge Special Solicitation, USC
Previous Service
Peer Mentor, USC Department of Linguistics, USC, 2022-2024
Treasurer, Graduate Students in Linguistics (GSiL), USC, 2022-2024
Co-President, Graduate Students in Linguistics (GSiL), USC, 2023-2024
Academic Service
Peer Reviewer for the 7th Annual California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP), Fall 2024
Peer Reviewer for the 6th Annual California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP), Fall 2023
Languages
English: Native Language
Chinese (Mandarin): Heritage Language
Russian: Intermediate speaking, reading, and writing
Teaching Experience
Teaching Experience
General Linguistics Introduction
General Linguistics Introduction
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2022,
LING 110: In a Word (USC),
Instructor: Hajime Hoji
Course focused on developing an understanding for the word as a 'building block' of language: how words are constructed, deconstructed, formed, and interpreted. This course includes modules in morphology, phonetics, syntax, and semantics. Additionally, this course allows for students to understand fundamental principles of scientific research by gaining firsthand experience through participating in and examining the results of mock-up experiments.
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2024
LING 210: Introduction to Linguistics (USC), Instructor: Canaan Breiss
Course focused on developing an understanding for the scientific study of language and its relation to human cognition. This course includes modules in phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Additionally, this course further combines understanding with applicability through the use of problem sets and examining real-world, typologically-diverse language systems.
Speech Production and Perception
Speech Production and Perception
Teaching Assistant, Spring 2023/24,
CORE 103: Human Speech (USC),
Instructor: Dani Byrd
Course focused on examining language through the context of cognitive science. This course provides a comprehensive overview of human speech: speech production, speech perception, language acquisition, and effects of atypical speech and hearing on both speech production and comprehension. This course also discusses the applications of various speech technologies such as speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition.
Introduction to Sociolinguistics
Introduction to Sociolinguistics
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2023,
LING 115: Language and Society (USC), Instructor: Andrew Simpson
Course focused on the discussion of the language use and its relation to various factors such as gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, as well as the intertwining of language to social, cultural, political, and historical influences, as reflected in diverse settings from everyday use to global policies. This course includes modules in bilingualism, language variation and change, and language diversity.
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