I have been fortunate to work with some amazing undergraduate and graduate colleagues over the course of my research career.
| 47. | Fei Wu | Graduate Research Intern, Modality.AI (University of Stuttgart, Germany; co-mentor with Michael Neumann) | Multimodal large language models for diagnosis, assessment and clinical reasoning. | 2026 |
| 46. | Rabab Rangwala | 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 | 2025- |
| 45. | Kurtis Brent | PhD student (UCSF & UC Berkeley; co-mentor with Sri Nagarajan, John Houde and Ben Parrell) | Following and compensation in speech motor control. | 2025- |
| 44. | Michael Eugene Ng Zeming | Undergraduate Summer Intern, Modality.AI (University of California, Berkeley; co-mentor with Oliver Roesler and Hardik Kothare) | Integrating inertial movement unit data into multimodal dialog based assessment. | 2025 |
| 43. | Ethelyn Huang Meici | Undergraduate Summer Intern, Modality.AI (University of California, Berkeley; co-mentor with Michael Neumann) | Analytically valid algorithms for formant extraction in disordered speech. | 2025 |
| 42. | Aditya Anantaraman | Undergraduate Summer Intern, Modality.AI (University of California, Berkeley; co-mentor with Jackson Liscombe and Lakshmi Arbatti) | Automated parsing of multimodal dialog webpages and analysis of ALS patient reports. | 2025 |
| 41. | Khandakar Islam | Undergraduate Summer Intern, Modality.AI (New York University, New York; co-mentor with David Pautler) | UX analysis of multimodal dialog interactions. | 2025 |
| 40. | Signe Gram Sand | Graduate Research Intern, Modality.AI (Aarhus University, Denmark; co-mentor with Hardik Kothare) | Emotion and cardiopulmonary information for neurological and mental health assessment. | 2025 |
| 39. | Cathy Zhang | Undergraduate Summer Intern, Modality.AI (Bard College at Simons-Rock; co-mentor with Jackson Liscombe and Oliver Roesler) | Curation of a multimodal metrics validation corpus for neurological and mental health assessment. | 2023- |
| 38. | Reva Bajjuri | Undergraduate Summer Intern, Modality.AI (UCLA; co-mentor with Hardik Kothare and Lakshmi Arbatti) | Curation of a multimodal metrics validation corpus for neurological and mental health assessment. | 2023- |
| 37. | 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- |
| 36. | 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-
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| 35. | Malvika Rao | Postdoctoral Research Intern, Modality.AI (Harvard University) | Disease staging using event based probabilistic modeling. | 2024 |
| 34. | Anirudh Arbatti | Undergraduate Research Intern, Modality.AI (University of Toronto; co-mentor with Michael Neumann) | Natural language processing features for neurological and mental health. | 2024 |
| 33. | Zaara Ahmed | Undergraduate Research Intern, Modality.AI (University of California, Berkeley; co-mentor with Hardik Kothare) | Automated quality control of audiovisual data using speech recognition. | 2024 |
| 32. | Priyanka Bodagala | Graduate Research Intern, Modality.AI (University of San Francisco; co-mentor with Oliver Roesler) | Analytical validation of hand metrics. | 2024 |
| 31. | Kishan Kollipara | Graduate Research Intern, Modality.AI (University of San Francisco; co-mentor with Jackson Liscombe) | Generating effective clinician-facing reports of speech biomarkers. | 2024 |
| 30. | Emma Leschly | Graduate Research Intern, Modality.AI (University of Copenhagen) | Interpretable machine learning for multimodal health signals. | 2024 |
| 29. | 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 |
| 28. | 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- |
| 27. | Nikhil Sukhdev | Graduate Research Intern, Modality.AI (University of Windsor; co-mentor with Michael Neumann and Oliver Roesler; now at Amazon) | Pose estimation using webcam video for movement disorders. | 2023-24 |
| 26. | Sejal Desai | Graduate Summer Intern, Modality.AI (USF; co-mentor with Lakshmi Arbatti) | Automated symptom labelling from vebatim patient reports of problems. | 2023 |
| 25. | Bhargavi Sundar | Graduate Summer Intern, Modality.AI (U Stuttgart; co-mentor with David Fox; now at MyStudio) | Website and UX streamlining | 2023 |
| 24. | Vanessa Richter | Graduate Summer Intern, Modality.AI (U Stuttgart; co-mentor with Michael Neumann) | Advanced visual features for neurological and mental health. | 2022-2023 |
| 23. | Olivia Murton | Postdoctoral Researcher, Massachusetts General Hospital IHP (co-mentor with Jordan Green) | Voice characteristics of bulbar and non-bulbar ALS. | 2022-2023 |
| 22. | 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 |
| 21. | 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 |
| 20. | Kwang Seob Kim | Postdoctoral Research Associate (UC San Francisco; co-mentor with Sri Nagarajan, John Houde and Ben Parrell; now Assistant Professor at Purdue University) | Feedback-aware, state-feedback based speech motor control modeling | 2020-2023 |
| 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; now at Salesforce Research) | 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
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