Bragging about my past students

As an educator, nothing brings me more joy than the accomplishments of the wonderful students I’ve gotten to work with. In some cases, I might be co-advising these students, in other cases, on their committee, and in other cases still, I might just be supervising or helping with some part of their work. But in any case, I’m proud of them, and this page exists to share my pride in their accomplishments.

Of course, there are many unlisted students who I am still very proud of, and if you’re a former student who’s doing wonderful things in Academia or Industry, email me, I’d genuinely love to hear about it, and maybe even brag about you here.

Updated May 2025

Wayne Lee (M.S. in CSS, UCSD, 2024) is now a graduate researcher at the Speech Dynamics lab at Die Universität zu Köln.
Maxine Van Doren (Ph.D, UCSD, 2024) is now Faculty at Cal State San Bernadino.
Yaqian Huang (Ph.D, UCSD, 2022) moved on to a PostDoc at the Acoustics Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and is now Faculty at the University of Alberta.
Yuan Chai (Ph.D, UCSD, 2022) has moved on to a PostDoc at UCLA and then at Washington, where she’s currently a Teaching Associate and Director of the phonetics lab.
Jian Zhu (Ph.D, Michigan, 2022) is now faculty at University of British Columbia and continues releasing amazing open source speech tools.
Olivier Jamois (B.A., UCSD, 2022) has joined the UCSD Linguistics department as staff, where he will continue to be a force for good and enthusiasm in Linguistics.
Kelly Wright (Ph.D, Michigan, 2022) published an article on racialization of language on ESPN’s ‘Undefeated’ column in November 2020, and is now faculty at University of Wisconsin Madison.
Michael Obiri-Yeboah (Ph.D, UCSD, 2021) is now Faculty at Georgetown!
Allison Park (B.A., UCSD, 2020) has had their poster “hsdgkhsdjnf: On the Linguistic Nature of Keysmashes” accepted for the LSA’s 2021 meeting in January 2021! This work went on to become an Honors Thesis in our department, and eventually wound up being published in our department working papers series. Allison is currently excelling in the UCSD M.S. program in Computational Social Science.