Muhammad Abdo

Graduate Student

• mabdo@iu.edu

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Research Interests:Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing: Building and evaluating customized multilingual datasets, Building Domain-Specific Datasets: Financial and Medical datasets, Computational Semantics: Word Sense Disambiguation, Cultural Analytics: Sentiment analysis and analysis of public discourse

Noor Abo Mokh

Graduate Student

Nicholas Obeng Agyekum

Graduate Student

• nagyekum@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Sociolinguistics, Language contact and change, Phonetics, Phonology

Kaosarat Aina

Graduate Student

• kbaina@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Experimental Phonetics and Phonology. Native and Second Language Tone Acquisition and Lexical Processing. Yoruba Loanword Prosody. Language Documentation. Corpus creation for Human Language Technology like Automatic Speech Recognition, Tone recognition, Computer Assisted Pronunciation Learning in Yoruba and Low-Resource Languages

Matthew Ajibade

Graduate Student

• maajibad@iu.edu

Research interests:
Phonetics, Phonology, L2 and Heritage Phonology

Meesum Alam

Graduate Student

• meealam@iu.edu

Research Interests:
NLP for low resource languages, Computational Grammar, Language Documentation, Indo-Aryan languages

Abdullah Alharthi

Graduate Student

• alhartha@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing; Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; and Syntax

Santiago Arroniz

Graduate Student

• sarroniz@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Laboratory Phonology; Speech Perception; Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing; Cross-Dialectal Understanding

Morgan Ashman

Graduate Student

Research Interests:
Second Language Acquisition; East Asian Languages; Syntax

Sadia Ashraf

Graduate Student

• saashr@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Computational Linguistics, South Asian Languages

Zhanerke Assetova

Graduate Student

• zhasset@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Semantics and Syntax

Fatima Beldaha

Graduate Student

Research Interests:
Phonetics, Phonology, Romance Languages, language pathologies, language acquisition, historical linguistics, Turkic languages, syntax 

Jose P. Benavides

Graduate Student

• josbenav@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Syntax; Semantics; Syntax-semantics Interface; Morphosyntax; Fieldwork; Indigenous Languages; Computational Linguistics; Romance Linguistics

Amanda Bohnert

Graduate Student

• abohnert@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Chin languages, acoustic & articulatory phonetics, fieldwork

Anthony Brandy

• ajbrandy@iu.edu

Research Interests :Syntax-semantics interface,  Documentation and development of curriculum for endangered and minoritized languages, Second language speaker and interlocutor individual differences and their effects on performance in assessment measures. 

Collin Brown

Graduate Student

Research Interests:
Computational Linguistics; Tibetic languages; Technologies for Marginalized Languages

Margaret Carpenter

Graduate Student

• marcarp@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Language documentation and revitalization, sociolinguistics, Southern dialectology, Haitian Creole

Anamitraa Chakraborty

Graduate Student

• achakra@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Sociolinguistics; Language Change; Language Variation; Phonology

Dylan Charter

Graduate Student

• dcharter@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Language ideologies, in particular in the education system. Language revitalization. Languages of Siberia & Central Asia.

Yi-An (Jason) Chen

Graduate Student

• yc65@iu.edu

Research interests:
Sociolinguistics; Computer-Mediated Communication; Discourse Analysis; Onomastics; Chinese Pedagogy

Yue Chen

Graduate Student

• yc59@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing

Elaine Dalida

Germanic linguistics and philology, historical linguistics, syntax, semantics, syntax/semantics interface, Turkic languages

Andrew S. Davis

Graduate Student

• ad7@iu.edu

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Research Interests:
Intersection of Language & Drugs: Medicinal, Religious/Ritual, and Recreational Use & Pharmacology ; Sentiment Analysis: Detecting Adverse Drug Events/Reactions in Text ; Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing ; Machine Learning ; Knowledge Graphs ; Arabic, Japanese, & Nahuatl Linguistics ; Phonetics & Phonology ; Semantics

James Decatur

Graduate Student

• jdecatur@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Computational Linguistics; Marginalized Languages; Dependency Parsing

Justin Fuller

Graduate Student

Research Interests:
Phonetics; Phonology; Syntax; Vowel Nasalization in English and in Spanish

Benjamin Glidden

• bglidden@iu.edu

Research Interests: Speech processing

Nils Hjortnaes

Graduate Student

• nhjortn@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Language Modeling, Low Resource Languages, Historical Languages, Language Documentation, Speech Processing, Unsupervised Language Processing

Shusuke Hashimoto

• shuhashi@iu.edu

Joel Jenkins

Graduate Student

• joeljenk@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Sociolinguistics; Semantics/Pragmatics: African American Language; Black LGBTQ+, Brazilian Portuguese; Language Variation

David Keefer

• davkeef@iu.edu

Research Interests: Computational Linguistics; Syntax; Norwegian

Snigdha Khanna

Graduate Student

• snkhanna@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Psycholinguistics, Cognitive modeling, Semantics, Conceptual Representation, Inner Voice

Soyoung Kim

Graduate Student

• sk135@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Syntax; Semantics; Syntax-Semantics Interface; TAM; Coordination; East Asian Linguistics

Kouadio Timothee Kouame

Graduate Student

• kkouame@iu.edu

Research Interests:Syntax and semantics, Minor in Computational linguistics

Anastasia Kuznetsova

Graduate Student

• anakuzne@iu.edu

Research interests:
Model complexity reduction and data efficiency for speech and audio, low-resource ASR, foundation models, representation learning.

Zackary Leech

Graduate Student

• zleech@iu.edu

Research Interests:
AI Engineering; Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics; Low-resource Languages; Pidgins and Creoles; Syntax; Phonetics and Phonology; Tok Pisin, Spanish, French, Haitian Creole

Qin Li

Graduate Student

• qli3@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Syntax and Semantics

Melissa Lieffers

Graduate Student

• mealieff@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Computational Linguistics, NLP for Language Revitalization

Elias Naske

• enaske@iu.edu

Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning in NLP

Richard Nyamahanga

Graduate Student

Reserach Interests: General Linguistics

Foluso Mary Okebiorun

Graduate Student

• fmokebio@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Pragmatics, Phonology and Second Language Studies

Alexandra O'Neil

Graduate Student

• aconeil@iu.edu

Research Interests:
NLP for language documentation; Computer-Assisted Language Learning; Automatic Speech Recognition

Wooji Park

Graduate Student

• wjinpark@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics; Speech Perception and Production; Bilingualism; Foreign-Accented Speech

Lauren Perkins

Graduate Student

• laurbutl@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Morphosyntax, language documentation, Tibeto-Burman languages

Grayson Pettit

Graduate Student

• grpettit@indiana.edu

Research Interests:
Language Revitalization & Archiving; Sociolinguistics; Language Variation; Uralic Languages, especially Estonian; Indigenous North American Languages

Robert Pugh

Graduate Student

• pughrob@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Language contact and multilingualism, NLP for similar and related languages, morphology, dependency syntax, reversing language shift (RLS), Nahuatl, Mesoamerican languages

Arielle Roadman

Graduate Student

• alebouli@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Language contact, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, linguistic change and variation

Amalia Robinson

Graduate Student

• amlrobin@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Sociolinguistics; Language Documentation and Revitalization; Multilingualism

Joshua D. Sims

Graduate Student

• jodasims@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Phonology; Tone; Vowel Harmony; Mongolian; Tibeto-Burman languages

Dillon Tautunu Smith

Graduate Student

• dibsmith@iu.edu

Research interests:
Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics; Morphosyntax

Kenneth Steimel

• ksteimel@iu.edu

Research interests: Computational linguistics, natural language processing, parsing, deep learning, natural language inference, large language models, low resources languages, Bantu languages.

Rin Steitz

Graduate Student

• ensteitz@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Automatic Speech Recognition, Phonetics/Phonology, Natural Language Processing, Korean

Ling Sun

Graduate Student

• ls44@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Cognitive Semantics; Degree Semantics

Daniel Glen Swanson

Graduate Student

• dangswan@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Machine Translation; Computational Morphology; Hebrew

Yuka Tashiro

Graduate Student

• yutash@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Phonetics, L1 speech perception, phonetic context effects, Philosophy of perception (not limited to speech perception), L2 speech perception, Japanese linguistics

Zuoyu Tian

Graduate Student

• zuoytian@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Computational Linguistics

Jarod Warner

Graduate Student

• jacwarne@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Phonology; Phonetics; Sociolinguistics; Creole studies; Belizean Kriol

Charlotte Zhu

• zz79@iu.edu

Research Interests: 

Grayson Ziegler

Graduate Student

• grzieg@iu.edu

Research Interests:
Phonetics, Phonology, Language Documentation, Ethics in Linguistic Fieldwork, Tibeto-Burman languages