—— " 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 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 received the Paula Menyuk Travel Award from BUCLD 50th for my upcoming poster presentation on computational modeling of infant phonotactic learning via prosodically segmented speech (with Connor Mayer, Canaan Breiss, and Megha Sundara). Come check it out and say hi if you'll be in Boston this November as well!

 ●  I presented two posters at SNL 2025 in Washington, DC! One was on speech planning in casual versus clear speech (with Srikantan Nagarajan, John Houde, Connor Mayer and Gregory Hickok); the other on phonetic encoding in continuous speech (with Jiaxuan Li and Xin Xie).