—— " I study speech sounds "

I’m a third-year PhD student 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 mainly 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. 

Prior to my PhD studies, 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). In Taiwan, I 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.