Research Experience

Sep. 2007 – 2011 Research Assistant,
SFU		 “The processing and learning of pitch in speech”, under the supervision of Dr. Yue Wang.

  • Aided in stimulus development, participant recruitment and testing and data analysis of a dichotic listening experiment.
  • Ran participants for the electroencephalography (EEG) experiment.
  • Aided in the experimental design and creation of both the dichotic and EEG experiments, as well as a Mandarin tone training experiment.
May – Dec. 2007 Research Assistant,
SFU		  “Audio-visual integration in speech processing and learning” project, under the supervision of Dr. Yue Wang.

  • Primary responsibility for this project was data analysis.

Teaching Experience

Spring 2010 Tutor Marker LING 221 Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
Fall 2009 Tutor Marker LING 200 Introduction to the Description of English
Grammar
LING 221 Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
Spring 2009 Tutor Marker LING 100 Language & Communication
Fall 2008 Tutor Marker LING 330 Phonetics

Service

2007 – 2010 Reception committee, Northwestern University, Department of Linguistics
2007 – 2010 Lab manager, Language and Brain Lab, SFU Department of Linguistics
2009 – 2010 Website committee, SFU Linguistics Graduate Student Association
2010 Organizing committee, 26th Northwest Linguistics Conference