EXPERTISE

Advancing precision medicine through AI that connects speech, neurophysiology, and clinical outcomes.

As a clinical research scientist and licensed medical speech-language pathologist with interdisciplinary expertise in speech neuroscience and computational linguistics, my work focuses on understanding the neural computations underlying speech motor control and 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 and essential tremor across pre-, intra-, and post-operative stages, as well as the neural correlates of speech motor sequence learning in individuals with epilepsy. By applying machine learning to multimodal behavioral and neural data, I aim to identify clinical biomarkers for personalized interventions and advance neuromodulation approaches for speech recovery.

EXPERIENCE

Date	Position & Affiliation	Methods/Skills	Diagnosis/Population
2025 – present	Postdoctoral Research Fellow Harvard Medical School | Massachusetts General Hospital – Boston, MA Brain Modulation Lab (Advisor: Mark Richardson, MD, PhD) Movement & Cognition Neurotherapeutics Lab (Advisor: Todd Herrington, MD, PhD)	• Deep brain stimulation (DBS) • Local field potentials (LFPs) • Stereotactic EEG (sEEG)	Movement disorders (Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, dystonia) and epilepsy
2021 – 2025	Doctoral Researcher Boston University – Boston, MA Speech Neuroscience Lab (Advisor: Frank Guenther, PhD)	• Functional & structural MRI • Connectivity biomarkers • Acoustic analysis	Developmental stuttering, Parkinson’s disease, autism
2018 – 2021	Medical Speech Language Pathologist AHMC Healthcare – Los Angeles, CA Clinical Fellowship (2018-2019)	• Modified Barium Swallow Study (MBSS) • Augmentative and assistive communication devices (AAC)	Acute neurological disorders
2015 – 2020	Graduate Research Scientist New York University – New York, NY Biofeedback Intervention for Speech Lab (Advisor: Tara McAllister, PhD, CCC-SLP)	• Articulatory ultrasound • Biofeedback treatment • Crowdsourcing intelligibility ratings	Pediatric speech sound disorders
2013 – 2015	Linguist and Curriculum Developer Alelo Inc. – Los Angeles, CA Sponsored by Defense Language and National Security Education Office (DLNSEO)	• Curriculum development • Virtual reality (VR) • Automatic speech recognition (ASR)	Military service members
2012 – 2013	Data Management Specialist / Annotator University of Southern California – Los Angeles, CA Institute for Creative Technologies (Advisor: Kenji Sagae, PhD)	• Supervised machine learning • Natural language processing (NLP) • Text annotation	Personal narratives
2012 – 2013	Speech Acoustics Analyst University of Southern California – Los Angeles, CA Endangered Language Documentation (Advisor: Khalil Iskarous, PhD)	• Experimental phonology • Computational linguistics • Endangered languages	Native speakers of indigenous language (Atayal)
2009 – 2012	Undergraduate Research Assistant University of Southern California – Los Angeles, CA Language Processing Lab (Advisor: Elsi Kaiser, PhD)	• Psycholinguistics • Eye tracking • Experimental design	Bilingual/multilingual speakers

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