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Labgroup Members: Current and Past

  • Eduardo G. Altmann (postdoc 2007-2008, co-advised with Adilson Motter) Professor and Head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney.

  • Mary E. Beckman (postdoc 1984-84), Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Ohio State University.

  • Clay Beckner , NZILBB Postdoc on Wordovators Project (2013-2018). Associate Professor, Centre for Applied Linguistics, Univ. of Warwick.

  • Deborah Berkeley (Ph.D 2000) Gradient OCP Effects. Retired International Project Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA.

  • Katy Carlson (postdoc 2001-03), Department Chair and Professor. of English, Morehead State Univ.

  • Cynthia Clopper (postdoc 2006-7, coadvised with Ann Bradlow), Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, Ohio State University.

  • Fred Cummins (postdoc 1997-98) Associate. Professor, University College Dublin School of Computer Science and Informatics; retired 2026. Now with the George Spencer Brown Society .

  • Robert Daland (Ph.D 2009) Word Segmentation, Word recognition, and word learning: A computational model of first language acquisition. Apple (Siri): Quality Engineer for Natural Language understanding.

  • Felix Drinkall (MEng, 2021; DPhil, 2026) . NLP/ML Researcher, Man Group.

  • Lisa Dawdy Hesterberg, (MA 2012; Ph.D 2014) The Structural and Statistical Basis of Morphological Generalization in Arabic. Senior Quantitative UX Researcher, Google.

  • Stefan A. Frisch (Ph.D 1996) Similarity and Frequency in Phonology. Prof. of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Appalachian State University.

  • James Sneed German (Ph.D 2008) Prosodic Strategies for Negotiating Reference in Discourse. Maitre de conferences en Sciences du Langage (associate professor) Aix-Marseille University and Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence.

  • Carolyn Gottfurcht-Zafra (Ph.D 2007) Denominal Verb Formation in English. Linguist and Knowledge Engineer, San Francisco Area..

  • Zhijin Guo (Postdoc, 2024-2025. Senior AI Researcher, JPMorganChase..

  • Jennifer Hay (Ph.D 2000) Causes and Consequences of Word Structure. Prof. of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, NZ. Founder of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain, and Behaviour.

  • Samantha Gett Heidenreich (Ph.D 2019) Disjunctive Questions: Experimental Evidence in Prosody and Discourse. Technical Writer at TIBA Parking Systems.

  • Valentin Hofmann , (DPhil 2024) Computational Investigations of Derivational Morphology. Assistant Professor, LMU Munich

  • Sarmad Hussain (Ph.D in Communication Sciences and Disorders, 1996). Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Center for Language Engineering at the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. IDN Programs Director, ICANN.

  • Kenneth Konopka (Ph.D 2011) The Vowels of Mexican Heritage English: Language Contact and Vocalic Variation in a Chicago Community. Lecturer in Linguistics, Northwestern University.

  • Fangru Lin (DPhil student, University of Oxford Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics.

  • Isabelle Lorge (postdoc 2022-23) Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Cleo.

  • Ved Mathai , DPhil student, University of Oxford Department of Engineering Science.

  • Rami Nair (Ph.D 1998) Syllables and Word Edges. Professor of Instruction, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, Northwestern University.

  • Jeremy Needle, (Ph.D 2018) Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Linguistics, University of Toronto..

  • Paul Röttger, DPhil in Social Data Science (2023), University of Oxford Internet Institute. Group Leader on AI Safety and Social Impacts, Hasso-Plattner Institute, Berlin. Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford.

  • Alex Schumacher (Ph.D 2018), Prepositions and Verbs in the Syntax and the Lexicon. Director of Data Science and AI, Macquarie Group

  • Kim Silverman (postdoc 1987-1989) Principle Research Scientist, Spoken Language Technologies, Apple.

  • Shirley Steele (postdoc 1986) New media artist.

  • Andrea Sims (postdoc 2006-8) Professor of Linguistics, Ohio State University.

  • John Evar Strid (Ph.D 2006), The Effect of Phonological Structure on Visual Word Access in Bilinguals and Monolinguals. Assoc. Professor, Dept of Curriculum and Instruction, Northern Illinois University.

  • Ruiran (Alba) Su , DPhil student, University of Oxford Department of Engineering Science.

  • Xuejing Sun (Ph.D 2002, co-advised with Xu Yi), Chief Scientist at Twirling, Beijing. .

  • Li Zhang (Postdoc 2022-2023) Associate Lecturer, University College London.

Masters students and BA honours students

  • Manoj Abhishetty . (MEng 2021, Oxford) Investigating the spread of concepts related to COVID-19 among online communities. Software Engineer, Finbourne Technology.

  • Abdul Z. Abdulrahim (MSc 2019, University of Oxford Social Data Science Program). DPhil student, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oxford. Co-founder Stears.

  • Fernando Almansa Moreno De Barreda (MEng 2023, Oxford). A Comprehensive Evaluation of Question Answering Systems: Introducing the UpstreamQA Dataset. Black Rock Aladdin Wealth Tech Team.

  • Mark D. Anderson (MS 1986, MIT-Bell Labs Cooperative Program). Pitch Determination of Speech Signals. Independent software consulting as Discerning Software Corporation.

  • Anne Bertram (MA 1994, Northwestern Linguistics). A Quantitative Study of Transitive Phrasal Verbs: Form, Function and Word Order. Software Developer, Center for Farm Financial Management, University of Minnesota.

  • Sharyl Corrado (BA honors 1993 Northwestern Linguistics). An experimental study of stress in Russian nonwords . Associate Prof. of History, Pepperdine University.

  • Karen Chu (MA 2013, Northwestern Linguistics) Investigating novel word blends using Games with a Purpose.

  • Cara Coburn (MA 2000, Northwestern Linguistics) Production and Perception of Focus Intonation.

  • Alex Djalali (BA 2008, Northwestern Linguistics). Ph.D in Linguistics 2015, Stanford University. Research Faculty, Georgia Institute of Technology.

  • Felix Drinkall (MEng 2021, Oxford) Forecasting Covid-19 caseloads from social media posts. DPhil, Oxford, see above. NLP/ML Researcher, Man Group.

  • Alex Goldie, (MEng 2022, Oxford Dept) DPhil student in the AIMS CDT, University of Oxford.

  • Anne Gooch (BA 2006, Northwestern Linguistics) The Role of Reduced Vowel Durations Perception of Foreign Accents in English and French. Deputy Parliamentarian, at the US House of Representatives.

  • Benjamin Gittelson (MSc 2019, University of Oxford Social Data Science Program) Linguistic Engineer, Meta.

  • Deborah Gordon Engle (MA 2003, Northwestern Linguistics). Influence of Russian L1 Palatalization Rules on Three Consonants in Azeri L2. Retired.

  • Lindsay Hartmann (MA 2002 Northwestern Linguistics), Morphological Competition in Conjugation of Spanish Verbs.

  • Becky Hu (MEng 2023, Oxford), Classifying Features on Social Media Comments. Goldman Sachs, DPhil student, University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University.

  • Bill Ku (MEng 2026, Oxford) Towards more human-like learning for artificial neural network language models.

  • Mia Mijovic (MEng 2022, Oxford) Forecasting Trends in Computing Research by Analyzing Linguistic Patterns. AI Engineer, G-Research.

  • Tyler Perrachione (BA/MA 2007, Northwestern Linguistics). Assoc. Professor of Speech Language and Hearing Sciences, Boston University. Program Director, Joint Bachelor of Science in Linguistics and SLHS.

  • George Tall (MEng 2020, Oxford) Using word embeddings to analyse Amazon product reviews. Associate Manager, Accenture.

  • Andrew Talle , (BA/MA 1995). Northwestern Linguistics. Associate Professor of Musicology, Northwestern University.

  • Charlotte Vaughn (MA 2011 Northwestern Linguistics). Associate Research Professor, Language Science Center, University of Maryland.