Students, Postdocs & Alums

Current Students, Visitors, and Post Docs

USC Phon Group Alumni  

these are our PhDs, former undergrads, and former visitors

Jason Adams, (BS & MS USC); Engineering Leader at ServiceTitan

Sudha Arunachalam, (BA USC); PhD UPenn, now Associate Prof., Communication Sciences & Disorders, New York University

Merouane Benhassine, Language Engineer, Amazon

Reed Blaylock, USC Dornsife Fellow in General Education

Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza, Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Graduate and Professional Student Ombudsperson, The Ohio State University

Susie Choi, Speech Language Pathologist; Artist, Sydney Australia

Suzanne Curtin, Vice-Provost and Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs Professor,  Brock University

Bella Feng, Director, Clinical Trial Data Science at EQRx; formerly Biostatistical Programming Manager, Amgen

Teruhiko Fukaya, Professor, Dept. of English Communication, Gunma Prefectural Women's University, Tamamura, Japan

Chloé Gfeller, Speech Expert, Cerence Inc.

Dylan Gould, Frontend Software Engineer, Universal.one

Carolina González, Associate Professor, Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University

Narineh Hacopian, Freelance Producer

Jessica Harmon, MDiv student at Yale Divinity

Samantha Gordon Danner, Special Project Manager, Viterbi School of Engineering; Visiting Scholar USC Linguistics

Peter Guekguezian, Visiting Scholar, University of Rochester; Learning Program Designer, OpenClassrooms

Christina Hagedorn, Associate Professor, College of Staten Island

Sarah Harper, Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Neurological Surgery at UCSF

Mark Harvey, (visiting scholar); Associate Professor, University of Newcastle

Ed Holsinger, Principal Data Engineer at Accolade

Fang-Ying Hsieh, Linguist Specialist, ObEN, Inc.

Brian Hsu, Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Linguistics

Lin Hua

Canan Ipek, Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Psychology, USC

Cristian Iscrulescu, Translator

Aaron Jacobs, Software Engineer, Google Australia 

Hayeun Jang, post doctoral fellow at Seoul National University; Assistant Professor at Busan University of Foreign Studies

Fetiye Karabay, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft 

Abe Kazemzadeh, Assistant Professor of Software Engineering, University of St. Thomas

Sonia Khurana, Payload Engineer, O3b Networks, SES Networks

Celeste Kidd, (BA USC); now Assistant Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley

Jong-mi Kim, Professor, English Language & Literature, Kangwon National University, Korea

Jelena Krivokapić, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Michigan, previously Yale University

Marni Landes Dewitt, SEO Content Specialist, Yummly

Agnieszka Lazorczyk

Yoonjeong Cynthia Lee, Research Associate, UCLA Department of Head and Neck Surgery and Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan Department of Linguistics

David Li, Manager, Analytics and Data Science, ProSearch Strategies, Inc.

Jerry Liu

Michal Temkin Martinez, Professor, Boise State University

Alexsandro Meireles, (2005 Visiting Scholar from Dept. of Linguistics, UNICAMP, Brazil); Professor, Federal University of Espírito Santo

Mairym Lloréns Monteserín, Assistant Professor of Neurolinguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Puerto Rico

Fidèle Mpiranya, (Fulbright visiting scholar 2004-2005); Instructional Professor of Swahili, the University of Chicago

Simona Montanari, Professor, Child & Family Studies, Cal State LA

Emily Nava, Director of Engineering, Strata Identity

Miran Oh, AI/ML - Voice Building Engineer (Korean), Siri Text-to-Speech, Apple Inc.

Charlie O'Hara, Data Scientist, National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN)

Ben Parrell, Associate Professor, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Nynaeve Perkins Booker, PhD student at UC Davis Linguistics

Magdalena Pire-Schmidt, (MA USC); how-to-okr.com

Anisia Popescu, (post doctoral scholar); University of Potsdam

Michael Proctor, (PhD Yale, post-doc USC SAIL lab); Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University

Vikram Ramanarayanan, Chief Science Officer, Modality.AI and Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at UC San Francisco

Daylen Riggs, Data Scientist, PrettyLitter

Sergio Robles-Puente, Associate Professor, World Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, West Virginia University

Ana Sánchez-Muñoz, Professor, Department of Chicana/o Studies, Cal State Northridge

Arthur Santana, (Visiting Student from University of São Paolo); Associate Linguist at Google Brazil 

Caitlin Smith, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University

Tanner Sorensen, NLP Scientist at Uniphore

Laura Tejada

Sam Tilsen, (post-doc USC Hearing & Communication Neuroscience Training Grant); Professor of Linguistics, Cornell

Stephen Tobin, (MA USC, PhD UConn), Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, University of Potsdamn

Erika Varis Doggett, Sr. Research Scientist, Disney Research Studios

Wei Wei (Haley), Assistant Professor, Peking University

Yifan Yang, Assistant Professor, School of Foreign Languages at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Alums, please contact dbyrd @ usc.edu for updates to the links or positions above; or to request removal from the list. 

 [Last update Feb 2024]