—— " I study speech sounds "

I’m a 4th year PhD candidate in Language Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), where I am primarily advised by Dr. Gregory Hickok at the Auditory and Language Neuroscience Lab. I also work closely with Dr. Xin Xie and Dr. Connor Mayer at UCI on a variety of ongoing research projects. 

I use behavioral experiments, neural measures, and corpus analysis to address questions in the area of speech perception and production. My current research focuses on: (1) the encoding of phonetic detail in both perception and production, and (2) the perception-production link that underlies the sensorimotor control of speech. 

Back in Taiwan, I received an B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), and an M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology from National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences (NTUNHS). I've worked as a research assistant in the Experimental Phonology Lab at NYCU and as a clinical speech-language pathologist specializing in child language disorders and speech sound disorders.

💡 New Updates: 

 ●  I'll be presenting a talk, "From Words to Sentences: Contextual Predictability Overrides Phonetic Ambiguity in Lexical Competition" (with Jiaxuan Li and Xin Xie), at Interspeech 2026. Come check it out and say hi if you're also going be in Sydney this September!

●  Our new paper, "The Perception-Production Link in L2 Vowel Imitation by Mandarin Learners of English" (with Chun-Ting Chien and Yu-An Lu), is now published in Second Language Research!