ABOUT ME
Jackie S. Kim, PhD, CCC-SLP
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Neurology
Harvard Medical School | Massachusetts General Hospital
PhD – Boston University: Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (Boston, MA)
MS – Columbia University: Communication Sciences and Disorders (New York, NY)
BA – University of Southern California: Linguistics (Los Angeles, CA)
Advancing precision medicine through AI that understands human speech and the brain that powers it.
As a postdoctoral research scientist and medical speech-language pathologist with expertise in speech neuroscience and linguistics, my work focuses on uncovering the neural computations underlying speech motor control and understanding how these mechanisms are disrupted in neurological disorders.
Currently, I am investigating the effects of deep brain stimulation on speech in individuals with Parkinson’s disease. By integrating acoustic, behavioral, and neuroimaging data with machine learning, I aim to: 1) identify clinical biomarkers for personalized treatment, 2) develop translatable AI-driven neurotechnology for speech recovery, and 3) optimize neuromodulation interventions.
Beyond research, I enjoy exploring new cities, learning languages (natural and computational), and watching college football.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
| Doctoral Student Boston University (Boston, MA) Speech Neuroscience Laboratory PI: Dr. Frank Guenther | 2021 – 2025 |
| Assistant Research Scientist New York University (New York, NY) Biofeedback Intervention for Speech Laboratory PI: Dr. Tara McAllister | 2015 – 2020 |
| Graduate Research Assistant Columbia University, Teachers College (New York, NY) Speech Production and Perception Laboratory PI: Dr. Erika Levy | 2015 – 2016 |
| Data Management Specialist / ML Annotator University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) Institute for Creative Technologies PI: Dr. Kenji Sagae | 2013 – 2013 |
| Speech Acoustics Analyst University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) Endangered Language Documentation PI: Dr. Khalil Iskarous | 2012- 2013 |
| Undergraduate Research Assistant University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) Language Processing Laboratory PI: Dr. Elsi Kaiser | 2009 – 2012 |
PUBLICATIONS & CONFERENCES
| Kim, J.S., Heller-Murray, E.S., Segawa, J., Nieto-Castañón, A., Manoach, D.S., Tager-Flusberg, H., Guenther, F.H., Tourville, J.A. (2023, June 12). Increased local gyrification associated with increased autism severity. Boston Speech Motor Control Symposium, Boston, MA. |
| Manes, J.L., Tourville, J.A., Kearney, E., Nieto-Castañón, A., Holland, B.G., Kim, J.S., Guenther, F.H. (2022, November 11-15). Cortical responses to jaw and larynx perturbations during speech production in Parkinson’s disease: A preliminary fMRI analysis. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. |
| Preston, J.L., McAllister, T., Phillips, E., Boyce, S.E., Tiede, M., Kim, J.S., Whalen, D.H. (2019). Remediating residual rhotic errors with traditional and ultrasound-enhanced treatment: A single-case experimental study. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 28(3), 1167-1183. DOI: 10.1044/2019_AJSLP-18-0261 |
| Preston, J.L., McAllister, T., Phillips, E., Boyce, S.E., Tiede, M., Kim, J.S., Whalen, D.H. (2018). Treatment for residual /r/ errors with high and low frequency ultrasound visual feedback: A single caseexperimental design. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing, 61(8), 1875-1892. DOI: 10.1044/2018_JSLHR-S-17-0441 |
| Sagae, K., Gordon, A.S., Dehgani, M., Metke, M., Kim, J.S., Gimbel, S., Tipper, C., Kaplan, J., Immordino-Yang, M.H. (2013, August 4-6). A data-driven approach for classification of subjectivity in personal narratives. Workshop on Computation Models of Narratives, Hamburg, Germany. DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2013.198 |
| Kim, J.S., Kaiser, E. (2012, October 12). Arabic and Mandarin speakers’ pronoun production in English narratives: Sensitivity to gender. USC First Undergraduate Conference in Linguistics, Los Angeles, CA. |
| Kim, J.S., Kaiser, E. (2012, September 7). Effects of L1 gender marking on pronoun use in a second language. Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association, Poznan, Poland. |
| Kim, J.S., Kaiser, E. (2012, July 10-12). Pronoun use in a second language: An investigation of Chinese and Arabic speakers’ sensitivity to gender differences when producing English narratives. Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Montreal, Canada. |
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