Full CV (Feb 2024)
Education
2017 - Present Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Southern California, CA
2017 - 2019 M.A. in Linguistics, University of Southern California, CA
2015 - 2017 M.A. in Regional Studies - East Asia, Harvard University, MA
2011 - 2015 B.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Nanjing University, China
Honors and awards
2023 - 2024 USC Graduate School Morkovin Endowed Fellowship ($38700)
2023 USC Graduate Student Government Professional Development Fund ($500)
2023 USC Graduate School Travel/Research Award ($1500)
2023 USC Gold Family Graduate Fellowship ($5000)
2023 USC Graduate School Summer Research and Writing Grant ($2000)
2022 USC Graduate Student Government Professional Development Fund ($500)
2022 USC Graduate School Travel/Research Award ($1500)
2022 USC Graduate School Summer Research and Writing Grant ($2000)
2017 – 2023 USC Provost Fellowship in Social Sciences ($34,000 anually)
2015 – 2017 Harvard Yenching Fellowship ($32,160 anually)
Peer-reviewed publications and manuscripts
2023. Peter Wu, Tingle Li, Yijing Lu, Yubin Zhang, Jiachen Lian, Alan W. Black, Louis Goldstein, Shinji Watanabe, Gopala K. Anumanchipalli. Deep speech synthesis from MRI-Based articulatory representations. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2023. [Link]
2023. Yijing Lu, Haley Hsu, Louis Goldstein, Asterios Toutios. Effect of individual vocal tract geometry on the tongue shaping for American English /ɹ/. Proceedings the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). [Link]
2023. Jiachen Lian, Alan W. Black, Yijing Lu, Louis Goldstein, Shinji Watanabe, Gopala K. Anumanchipalli. Articulatory representation learning via joint factor analysis and neural matrix factorization. Proceedings of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). [Link]
2022. Yijing Lu, Charlotte E. E. Wiltshire, Kate E. Watkins, Mark Chiew, Louis Goldstein. Characteristics of articulatory gestures in stuttered speech: a case study using real-time magnetic resonance imaging. Journal of Communication Disorders. [Link]
2022. Christina Hagedorn, Yijing Lu, Asterios Toutios, Uttam Sinha, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth Narayanan. Variation in compensatory strategies as a function of target constriction degree in post-glossectomy speech. JASA Express Letters. [Link]
2021. Yijing Lu, Haley Hsu, Louis Goldstein, Asterios Toutios. Effect of vocal tract morphology on tongue shaping for American English /ɹ/. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(4), A188-A188. [Link]
2021. Yijing Lu, Justin Ly, Shrikanth Narayanan, Louis Goldstein, Asterios Toutios. Modeling speakerspecific vocal tract kinematics from gestural scores. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(4), A188-A189. [Link]
2019. Yijing Lu. Between perceptual similarity and acoustic similarity: an investigation using Self-Organizing Maps. Master's thesis. University of Southern California.
2017. Yijing Lu. On Chinese gapless relative clauses. Master's thesis. Harvard University.
Peer-reviewed conference presentations
Yijing Lu, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth Narayanan. (May 2024). MRI reveals CV coarticulation is preserved in stuttering. Talk to be given at the 13th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Autrans, France.
Yubin Zhang, Annie Rialland, Yijing Lu, Sarah Harper, Louis Goldstein. Intensity downtrends in Embosi intonation. Poster to be given at the 13th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Autrans, France.
Yijing Lu, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth Narayanan. (2023, canceled). Upcoming vowel gestures are articulated during initial consonant dysfluencies. Talk to be given at the 13th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC), Oxford, UK.
Yijing Lu, Haley Hsu, Louis Goldstein, Asterios Toutios. (2023). Effect of individual vocal tract geometry on the tongue shaping for American English /ɹ/. Talk presented at the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prague, Czech Republic.
Peter Wu, Tingle Li, Yijing Lu, Yubin Zhang, Jiachen Lian, Alan W Black, Louis Goldstein, Shinji Watanabe, Gopala K. Anumanchipalli. Deep speech synthesis from MRI-Based articulatory representations. Talk presented at INTERSPEECH 2023, Dublin, Ireland.
Jiachen Lian, Alan W Black, Yijing Lu, Louis Goldstein, Shinji Watanabe, Gopala K. Anumanchipalli. (2023). Articulatory representation learning via joint factor analysis and neural matrix factorization. Poster presented at 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, Greece.
Yijing Lu, Haley Hsu, Louis Goldstein, Asterios Toutios. (2021). Effect of vocal tract morphology on tongue shaping for American English /ɹ/. Poster presented at the 181st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Seattle, WA. [abstract][poster]
Yijing Lu, Justin Ly, Shrikanth Narayanan, Louis Goldstein, Asterios Toutios. (2021). Modeling speaker-specific vocal tract kinematics from gestural scores. Poster presented at the 181st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Seattle, WA. [abstract][poster]
Christina Hagedorn, Yijing Lu, Uttam Sinha, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth Narayanan. (2021). Variation in compensatory strategies as a function of target constriction degree in post-glossectomy speech. Poster presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) convention 2021, Online.
Yijing Lu, Charlotte Wiltshire, Kate E. Watkins, Louis Goldstein. (2021). Characteristics of articulatory constriction actions in dysfluent speech. Talk presented at the 12th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC), Online. [slides]
Yijing Lu. (2020). Relating acoustic similarity and perceptual similarity: a case study using computational methods. Poster presented at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), New Orleans, LA. [poster]
Cindy Chiang, Yijing Lu, Elsi Kaiser. (2019). Object-extracted relative clause processing: examining interactions between discourse status, representational complexity, and locality. Talk presented at the 3rd California Meeting in Psycholinguistics (CAMP), Santa Cruz, CA.
Cindy Chiang, Yijing Lu, Elsi Kaiser. (2019). Effects of discourse status, representation complexity, and locality on object-extracted relative clause processing. Poster presented at the 25th Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference (AMLaP), Moscow, Russia.
Yijing Lu. (2017). Gapless relative clauses and noun-complement clauses in Chinese. Poster presented at the 11th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL), Taipei, Taiwan.