Past Graduate Award Recipients

Congratulations to all past CCBS Summer Graduate Research Award recipients. 

The Center is ecstatic to support outstanding students each year. Select from the following drop-down menus to view all past winners. 

Ada Lamba

  • Curating a Large Dataset for Predicting Word-Level Speech Intelligibility of Real-World Recordings
  • Home Department: Computer Science Engineering, advised by Dr. Donald Williamson
  • Visiting Department: Speech and Hearing Science, advised by Dr. Sarah Yoho Leopold

 

Alyssa Allen

  • Spanish/English Bilingual Speaker Phonetic Alignment to Machine Interlocutors
  • Home Department: Linguistics, advised by Dr. Kathryn Campbell-Kibler
  • Visiting Department: Spanish & Portuguese, advised by Dr. Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza

 

Amy Chun

  • Adaptive User Engagement in Interactive Dialogue Systems with Large Language Models and Reinforcement
  • Home Department: Computer Science Engineering, advised by Dr. Andrew Perrault
  • Visiting Department: Linguistics, advised by Dr. Michael White

 

Izabela Jamsek

  • Parental Sensitivity, Intrusiveness, and Child Language: Effects of Child Hearing Status and Time
  • Home Department: Speech & Hearing Science, advised by Dr. Rachael Frush Holt
  • Visiting Department: Psychology, advised by Dr. Laura Wagner

 

Jane Hu

  • Mapping Believes and Attitudes underlying Public Opinions: Hilbert Space Multi-Dimensional Theory 
  • Home Department: Communication, advised by Dr. Zheng Joyce Wang
  • Visiting Department: Political Science, advised by Dr. Alexander Wendt

 

Pedro Antonio Ortiz Ramírez

  • Inhibitory control and vocabulary size differentially predicting scalar implicatures in monolingual and bilingual children.
  • Home Department: Spanish & Portuguese, advised by Dr. John Grinstead
  • Visiting Department: Psychology, advised by Dr. Laura Wagner

 

Victoria Sevich

  • The contribution of voice cue weighting to speech perception in adults with cochlear implants
  • Home Department: Speech & Hearing Science, advised by Dr. Janet Weisenberger
  • Visiting Department: Linguistics, advised by Dr. Cynthia Clopper

Emily Napoli

  • First language dialect experience as a source of individual differences in vowel acquisition
  • Home Department: Linguistics, advised by Dr. Cynthia Clopper
  • Visiting Department: Psychology, advised by Dr. Mark Pitt

 

Gerardo Lopez

  • Exploring the Perception of Synthesized Voices within a Musical Context
  • Home Department: Music, advised by Dr. Anna Gawboy
  • Visiting Department: Psychology, advised by Dr. Laura Wagner

 

Nicole Viola

  • Developing QUEST (Quitting Using Executive function Strategy Training) Tobacco Cessation Component Development for Youth Experiencing Homelessness with Acquired Brain Injury
  • Home Department: Speech & Hearing, advised by Dr. Jennifer Lundine
  • Visiting Department: Public Health, advised by Dr. Julianna Nemeth

 

Seyed Ali Alavi Bajestan

  • Detecting Auditory Selective Attention from EEG Data using Deep Neural Networks
  • Home Department: Computer Science and Engineering, advised by Dr. Donald Williamson
  • Visiting Department: Psychology, advised by Dr. Mark Pitt

 

Xiaozhi Yang

  • Gaze influences political decision making: a combine computational modelling and eye-tracking approach
  • Home Department: Psychology, advised by Dr. Ian Krajbich
  • Visiting Department: Communication, advised by Dr. Jason Coronel

 

Yu Jin Song

  • The role of cognitive ability in processing prosodic prominence by adults and children
  • Home Department: Linguistics, advised by Dr. Shari Speer
  • Visiting Department: Psychology, advised by Dr. Laura Wagner

 

Zachary Lookenbill

  • "We Got the Beat": Synchronization and Beat Perception in Marching Band and Drumline
  • Home Department: Music, advised by Dr. Anna Gawboy
  • Visiting Department: Psychology, advised by Dr. Rosalee Meyer

Jingyi Chen

  • Modeling language acquisition from speech with neural networks
  • Home Department: Linguistics, advised by Dr. Micha Elsner
  • Visiting Department: Computer Science and Engineering, advised by Dr. Eric Fosler-Lussier

 

Zachary Lookenbill

  • A Game of Musical Telephone: Using Iterated Learning to Understand the Transmission of Musical Tempo
  • Home Department: Music, advised by Dr. Daniel Shanahan
  • Visiting Department: Communications, advised by Dr. Robert Bond

 

Christopher Holt

  • Investigating the linguistic bias in speech-language pathologists with three dialects
  • Home Department: Speech & Hearing, advised by Dr. Robert Allen Fox
  • Visiting Department: Psychology, advised by Dr. Laura Wagner

 

Jory Ross

  • Encoding Flexibility and Attentional Constraints on Socioindexical Perception
  • Home Department: Linguistics, advised by Dr. Cynthia Clopper
  • Visiting Department: Psychology, advised by Dr. Laura Wagner

 

Jessica Stark

  • Exploring the Roles of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Episodic Memory and Cerebral Blood Flow in Healthy Older Adults
  • Home Department: Psychology, advised by Dr. Scott Hayes
  • Visiting Department: Clinical Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, advised by Dr. Deb Kegelmeyer

 

Anita Shankar

  • Inflammation-Related Neural Correlates of Cognitive Function in Older Adults
  • Home Department: Psychology, advised by Dr. Ruchika Prakash
  • Visiting Department: Psychiatry, advised by Dr. Jan Kiecolt-Glaser

Shanmukha Battula

  • Improving Intelligibility of Reverberant Speech in combined Speech and Non-speech Interference
  • Home Department: Computer Science Engineering
  • Visiting Department: Speech and Hearing Sciences
  • Advisors: Dr. DeLiang Wang and Dr. Eric Healy

 

Preston Lennon

  • Aphantasia and Conscious Thought
  • Home Department: Philosophy
  • Visiting Department: Psychology
  • Advisors: Dr. Declan Smithies and Dr. Alex Petrov

 

Holly Lind-Combs

  • Using Dynamic Time Warping and Levenshtein Distances to Predict Variability in Perception of Non-Ambient Accents
  • Home Department: Speech and Hearing Sciences
  • Visiting Department: Linguistics
  • Advisors: Dr. Rachael Frush Holt and Dr. Cynthia Clopper

 

Michael McKenna

  • Validating and Extending a Whole-Brain Functional Connectivity Model of Alzheimer's Disease Pathology
  • Home Department: Psychology
  • Visiting Department: Neurology
  • Advisors: Dr. Ruchika Prakash and Dr. Douglas Scharre

 

Connor Rouillier

  • Delimiting the Boundary Between Object File Representation and Ensemble Representation of Plural Objects and its Interaction With Morphological Form
  • Home Department: Linguistics
  • Visiting Department: Psychology
  • Advisors: Dr. Andrea Sims and Dr. Nikole Patson

Kristina Bowdrie

  • Effects of Parental Self Efficacy and Involvement in Early Intervention
  • Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Dr. Rachael Frush Holt

 

Samantha Burgess

  • Visual Cues as an Aid in the Auditory Segregation of Music
  • Department of Music Theory, Dr. Laura Wagner

 

Sammy Gardner

  • Situating Gesture in Musical Understanding
  • Department of Music, Dr. Laura Wagner

 

Eric Johnson

  • Improving Speech Intelligibility Using Machine Learning
  • Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Dr. DeLiang Wang

 

Victoria Sevich

  • Are Phonological Representations in CI Users Similar to "Normal"?
  • Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Dr. Cynthia Clopper

Bethany Frick 

  • Lexical Categories in Children with Autism who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication
  • Home Department: Speech and Hearing Science; Advisor: Allison Bean
  • Visiting Department: Psychology; Advisor: Laura Wagner

 

Eric Johnson

  • Using AI to Solve the Speech-in-Noise Problem
  • Home Department: Speech & Hearing Science; Advisor: Eric Healy 
  • Visiting Department: Computer Science and Engineering; Advisor: DiLiang Wang

 

Elizabeth Monzingo

  • MRI Investigation of Neural Differences in Aural Skills between Pianists and Non-Pianist Musicians
  • Home Department: Music; Advisor: Daniel Shanahan
  • Visiting Department: Speech & Hearing Science; Advisor: Yune Lee

 

Lindsey Reymore

  • Investigating the Neural Bases of Crossmodal Descriptions of Musical Timbre
  • Home Department: Music; Advisor: Dan Shanahan
  • Visiting Department: Speech and Hearing Science; Advisor: Yune Lee

 

Ben Seicol

  • Characterization of calcium-dependent changes in synaptic function of the endbulb of Held in the cochlear nucleus following noise-induced hearing loss in young mice.
  • Home Department: Otolaryngology; Advisor: Ruili Xie
  • Visiting Department: Speech and Hearing Sciences; Advisor: Yune Lee

 

Nicholas Shea

  • Ecological Models of Communication in Vernacular Musical Styles
  • Home Department: Music Theory; Advisor: Anna Gawboy
  • Visiting Department: Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design; Advisor: Vita Berezina-Blackburn

 

Ying Yu

  • Testing the Appearance of Change in 3D Shape in a Virtual-Reality Environment
  • Home Department: Psychology; Advisor: Alexander Petrov
  • Visiting Department: Department of Philosophy; Computer Science and Engineering; Advisor: Declan Smithies; Jian Chen

Aaron Argall

  • A Programmable Neural Interface Mimicking Synaptic Plasticity
  • Home Department: College of Medicine, Advisor: Min Zhou
  • Visiting Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering ,  Advisor: Liang Guo

 

Andrew Blank

  • Contributions of Caregiver Stress and Self-Efficacy to Neurocognitive Outcomes for Children with Hearing Loss
  • Home Department: Speech and Hearing Science, Advisor: Rachael Frush Holt
  • Visiting Department: Psychology, Advisor: Dr. Laura Wagner

 

Qianli Feng

  • A PCA functional alignment in fMRI multi-voxel pattern analysis
  • Home Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering; Advisor: Aleix Martinez   
  • Visiting Department: Psychology; Advisor: Julie Golomb

 

Trevor Marcho

  • Exploring the effects of music and movement on cognitive behaviors of patients with Parkinson's Disease: A pilot study
  • Home Department: Music; Advisor: Eugenia Costa-Giomi
  • Visiting Department: Speech & Hearing Science; Advisor: Yune Lee

 

Lindsey Reymore

  • Color and Tone Color: Audio-Visual Crossmodal Correspondences with Musical Instrument Timbre
  • Home Department: Music; Advisor: Anna Gawboy
  • Visiting Department: Psychology; Advisor: Delwin Lindsey

Lifeng Jin

  • Help training better doctors: deep paraphrase detection with semi-supervision for virtual patients      
  • Home Department: Linguistics, Advisor: Dr. William Schuler
  • Visiting Department: Computer Science and Engineering, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Eric Fosler-Lussier

 

Zack Jones

  • Processing indexical phonetic variability in children
  • Home Department: Linguistics, Advisor: Dr. Cynthia Clopper
  • Visiting Department: Psychology, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Laura Wagner

 

Katherine Miller

  • Children’s Perceptual Capabilities with a Near Accent and a Distant Dialect
  • Home Department: Speech and Hearing Science, Advisor: Dr. Rachael Frush Holt
  • Visiting Department: Psychology, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Laura Wagner

 

Ramprakash Srinivasan

  • A Common Neural Basis for Production, Recalling and Perception of Facial Actions in Humans
  • Home Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Advisor: Dr. Aleix Martinez
  • Visiting Department: Psychology, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Julie Golomb

 

Jordan Vasko

  • Parameter Optimization for a Technique to Segregate Speech from Noise for Individuals with Hearing Loss
  • Home Department: Speech and Hearing Science, Advisor: Dr. Eric Healy
  • Visiting Department: Computer Science and Engineering, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Deliang Wang

 

Ying Yu

  • The Veridicality of Human 3D Shape Perception
  • Home Department: Psychology, Advisor: Dr. Alex Petrov
  • Visiting Department: Philosophy, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Declan Smithies

Lucia Bennetti

  • Musical Scoundscapes of Deaf Infants
  • Home Department: Music, Advisor: Dr. Eugenia Costa-Giomi
  • Visiting Department: Otolarynology, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Derek Houston

 

Brittney Carter

  • Testing an Advanced Technique to Derive Speech Band Importance Functions
  • Home Department: Speech & Hearing Science, Advisor: Dr. Eric Healy
  • Visiting Department: Eye and Ear Institute, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Federick Apoux

 

Jordan Prox

  • A Biological Brain Pacemaker for Selective Neuronal Pacing in the Hippocampus Ex Vivo
  • Home Department: Neuroscience, Advisor: Dr. Min Zhou
  • Visiting Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Liang Guo

 

Brittney Schirda

  • A Multilevel Examination of Trait Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation in Multiple Sclerosis
  • Home Department: Psychology, Advisor: Dr. Ruchika Prakash
  • Visiting Department: Neurology, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Michael Racke

 

Lindsay Warrenburg

  • Evaluating Emotional Perspective Induced by Music Listening
  • Home Department: Music, Advisor: Dr. David Huron
  • Visiting Department: Psychology, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Lisa Libby

 

Xiao Wu

  • Investigate the Neural Substrates of Phonological Access by Using an Artificial Language
  • Home Department: Psychology, Advisor: Dr. Zhong-Lin Lu
  • Visiting Department: East Asian Language and Literature, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Marjorie Chan

Daniel Berman

  • Topographic Maps of Depth in Human Visual Cortex
  • Home Department: Psychology, Advisor: Dr. Julie Golomb
  • Visiting Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Aleix Martinez

 

Ellen Dossey

  • Effect of Social Biases on Phonetic Imitation
  • Home Department: Linguistics, Advisor: Dr. Cynthia Clopper
  • Visiting Department: Psychology, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Laura Wagner

 

Tarek Farouni

  • Decoding the Pixels of Face Image from the Voxels of fMRI BOLD Activity Patterns
  • Home Department: Psychology, Advisor: Dr. Zhong-Lin Lu
  • Visiting Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Aleix Martinez

 

Ramprakash Srinvasan

  • Understanding Facial Expressions of Emotion - A Functional Neuro-Imaging
  • Home Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Advisor: Dr. Aleix Martinez
  • Visiting Department: Psychology, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Julie Golomb

 

Caitlyn Trevor

  • Animated Performance: "Better" Music Means Larger Movements
  • Home Department: Music, Advisor: Dr. David Huron
  • Visiting Department: Design/ACCAD, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Maria Palazzi

 

Yongchen Wang

  • Highly Efficient Acoustic Neural Stimulation Enabled by Piezoelectric Zinc Oxide Nanowires
  • Home Department: Biomedical Engineering, Advisor: Dr. Gunjan Agarwal
  • Visiting Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering & Neuroscience, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Liang Guo

Claire Arthur

  • Can Distractors Inhibit a ‘Chills’ Response to Music?
  • Home Department: Music, Advisor: Dr. David Huron
  • Visiting Department: Psycholog, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Andrew Leber

 

Evan Jaffe

  • A Novel Word Space Model for Measuring Semantic Similarity
  • Home Department: Linguistics, Advisor: Dr. William Schuler
  • Visiting Department: Computer Science and Engineering, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Eric Fosler-Lussier

 

Kodi Weatherholtz

  • The Bounds of Flexibility in Spoken Word Recognition: Cross-talker and Cross-system Generalization of Perceptual Learning for Speech
  • Home Department: Linguistics, Advisor: Dr. Cynthia Clopper
  • Visiting Department: Psychology, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Mark Pitt

 

Hyungwook Yim

  • Genetic and Neural Basis of Episodic Memory Development
  • Home Department: Psychology, Advisor: Dr. Vladimir Sloutsky
  • Visiting Department: Pediatrics, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Christopher Bartlett

 

Sarah Yoho

  • Improving Extraction of Speech from Noise Using a Novel “Variable-LC” Technique
  • Home Department: Speech and Hearing Science, Advisor: Dr. Eric Healy
  • Visiting Department: Computer Science and Engineering, Visiting Advisor: Dr. DeLiang Wang

Claire Arthur

  • Investigating Talent as a Factor of Music Appreciation
  • Home Department: School of Music, Advisor: Dr. David Hurron
  • Visiting Department: Psychology, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Andrew Leber

 

Nathan Condit-Schultz

  • Rhyme and Rhythmic Organization in Poetry and Rap
  • Home Department: School of Music, Advisor: Dr. David Hurron
  • Visiting Department: Linguistics, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Mary E. Beckerman

 

Alisha Janssen

  • Cognitive Training for Relapsing- Remitting Multiple Sclerosis: Broad Transfer to Executive Functioning Attention and Manual Dexterity
  • Home Department: Psychology, Advisor: Dr. Ruckika Shaurya Prakash
  • Visiting Department: Neurology, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Aaron Boster

 

Qingyang Yan

  • The Development of Perceptual Dialect Categories from Childhood through Adulthood
  • Home Department: Linguistics, Advisor: Dr. Cynthia Clopper
  • Visiting Department: Psychology, Visiting Advisor: Dr. Laura Wagner

 

Hyungwook Yim

  • Developmental Mechanisms for Episodic Memory