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); Senior Engineering Leader at ServiceTitan

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

Merouane Benhassine, Language Engineer, Amazon

Reed Blaylock, Post doctoral Fellow, Chapman University

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, formerly 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 & Language R&D Engineer, Cerence Inc.

Dylan Gould, Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Universal.one

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

Narineh Hacopian, Freelance Producer

Jessica Harmon, MDiv Yale Divinity

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

Peter Guekguezian, Learning Program Designer, OpenClassrooms

Christina Hagedorn, Associate Professor, College of Staten Island

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

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

Ed Holsinger, Principal Data Engineer at Accolade

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

Brian Hsu, Associate 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, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Australia 

Hayeun Jang, Assistant Professor at Sungkyunkwan University 

Fetiye Karabay, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft 

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

Sonia Khurana, Payload Engineering Manager, SES Satellites

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

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

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

Marni Landes Dewitt, Senior Content Marketing Manager, Yummly

Agnieszka Lazorczyk

Yoonjeong Cynthia Lee, Senior Research Associate, USC Viterbi School of Engineering

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

Jerry Liu

Yijing Lu, Post-doc, Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences University of Potsdam

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, Founder Writer Tumbleween Pioneer, formerly Director of Engineering, Strata Identity

Miran Oh, Siri Text-to-Speech Voice Engineer, 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 

Eve (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, Senior Data Scientist, PrettyLitter

Sergio Robles-Puente, Associate Professor, Spanish 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); Senior Linguist at Google Brazil 

Caitlin Smith, Teaching Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Johns Hopkins University

Alif Silpachai, Visiting Researcher, Departement Taal en Communicatie, Radboud Universiteit

Tanner Sorensen, AI 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, Assoc. Lab Director, Disney Research Imagineering

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 Aug 2025]