Mentoring

I have been fortunate to work with some amazing undergraduate and graduate colleagues over the course of my research career.

34. Emma Leschly Graduate Research Intern, Modality.AI (University of Copenhagen) Interpretable machine learning for multimodal health signals. 2024
33. Kolja Wilms College Student Intern, Modality.AI (co-mentor with Jackson Liscombe and Hardik Kothare) Annotation for analytical validation of audiovisual health database. 2023-24
32. Nikhil Sukhdev Graduate Research Intern, Modality.AI (University of Windsor; co-mentor with Michael Neumann) Pose estimation using webcam video for movement disorders. 2023-24
31. Sejal Desai Graduate Summer Intern, Modality.AI (USF; co-mentor with Lakshmi Arbatti) Automated symptom labelling from vebatim patient reports of problems. 2023
30. Cathy Zhang Undergraduate Summer Intern, Modality.AI (Bard College at Simons-Rock; co-mentor with Jackson Liscombe) Curation of a multimodal metrics validation corpus for neurological and mental health assessment. 2023-24
29. Reva Bajjuri Undergraduate Summer Intern, Modality.AI (UCLA; co-mentor with Hardik Kothare) Curation of a multimodal metrics validation corpus for neurological and mental health assessment. 2023
28. Bhargavi Sundar Graduate Summer Intern, Modality.AI (U Stuttgart; co-mentor with David Fox) Website and UX streamlining 2023
27. Alvince Pongos PhD student (UCSF & UC Berkeley; co-mentor with Sri Nagarajan, John Houde and Ben Parrell) Feedback-aware, state-feedback based speech motor control modeling. 2023-
26. Vanessa Richter Graduate Summer Intern, Modality.AI (U Stuttgart; co-mentor with Michael Neumann) Advanced visual features for neurological and mental health. 2022-
25. Daniel Tisdale Undergraduate and Graduate Summer Intern, Modality.AI (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; co-mentor with Jackson Liscombe) Eye gaze tracking for mental health monitoring. 2022-
24. Olivia Murton Postdoctoral Researcher, Massachusetts General Hospital IHP (co-mentor with Jordan Green) Voice characteristics of bulbar and non-bulbar ALS. 2022-2023
23. Isha Sai Undergraduate Summer Intern, Modality.AI (UCLA; co-mentor with Jackson Liscombe and Hardik Kothare) Curation of a multimodal metrics validation corpus for neurological and mental health assessment. 2022
22. Natawut Monaikul Doctoral Dissertation Committee (University of Illinois at Chicago; now at Amazon) Grammatical error detection, dialogue act classification, and feedback generation for language learning 2020
21. Jessica Gaines PhD student (UC Berkeley; co-mentor with Sri Nagarajan, John Houde and Ben Parrell) Feedback-aware, state-feedback based speech motor control modeling 2020-
20. Kwang Seob Kim Postdoctoral Research Associate (UC San Francisco; co-mentor with Sri Nagarajan, John Houde and Ben Parrell) Feedback-aware, state-feedback based speech motor control modeling 2020-
19. Ari Hansell-Baumgarten Undergraduate Summer Intern, Modality.AI (Bard College at Simons-Rock; co-mentor with Jackson Liscombe) Transcription and annotation for automatic corpus genereation for dysarthric speech 2021
18. Alexander Ocampo Undergraduate Summer Intern, Modality.AI (Bard College at Simons-Rock; co-mentor with Jackson Liscombe) Transcription and annotation for automatic corpus genereation for dysarthric speech 2021
17. Shreya Sridhar Undergraduate Summer Intern, Modality.AI (Purdue University) Quality control and call monitoring in dialog systems for neurological and mental health. 2021
16. Hardik Kothare Research Associate (UC San Francisco; now at Modality.AI) Sensorimotor adaptation to real-time formant shift 2016-
15. Katherine Stasaski PhD student (UC Berkeley) Automatic Feedback Generation for Dialog-Based Language Tutors 2020
14. Shuju Shi ETS Summer Intern, PhD student (Linguistics, UIUC) Prosodic features for automated assessment of interaction in human-machine dialog 2019
13. Kirby Cofino ETS Summer Intern, Masters student (Computer Science, American University; now at Expo) A modular, multimodal open-source virtual interviewer dialog agent 2017-2019
12. Zhaoheng Ni ETS Summer Intern, PhD student (Electrical Engineering, City University of New York) Robust speech processing and denoising 2017
11. Zhou Yu ETS Summer Intern, PhD student (Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University; now faculty at Columbia University) Multimodal dialog systems and automated speech scoring 2015-17
10. Colin Vaz PhD student (Electrical Engineering, USC; now at Amazon) Speech enhancement in noisy MRI environments 2012-14
9. Zisis Skordilis PhD student (Electrical Engineering, USC) Registration of 2D real-time MRI with 3D static MRI 2013-14
8. Andres Benitez PhD student (Linguistics, USC) Articulatory settings in native and nonnative speakers of different languages 2013-14
7. Yushan (Elena) Li Undergraduate (Electrical Engineering, USC) Segmentation of magnetic resonance images 2014
6. Zhaojun Yang PhD student (Electrical Engineering, USC; now at Facebook) Effect of lexical class and word frequency on speech articulation and acoustics 2012-13
5. Li Hsuan Lu Undergraduate (Electrical Engineering, USC) A cross-lingual analysis of fricative consonants 2012-13
4. Nishit Malde Undergraduate Viterbi Intern (Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, USC) Registration of 2D real-time MRI with 3D static MRI 2013
3. Osvaldo Rodriguez Undergraduate McNair Scholar (Computer Science, USC) Active learning for event detection in time-series 2013
2. Mairym Montserin PhD student (Linguistics, USC) Pausing behavior in conversational dialogue 2013
1. Alexander Onopa Undergraduate (Electrical Engineering, USC) Analysis of pausing behavior in dyadic interactions 2012