Our Team
Leadership & Staff
Meg Cychosz(she/her)
Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor of Linguistics & Annenberg Faculty Fellow
Sonia Patrizi(she/her)
Lab Coordinator & Research Speech-Language Pathologist
Julianna Gross
Research Coordinator
Daisy Sijia Ye(she/her)
Research Coordinator
Megan Otani(she/her)
Research Coordinator
Valerie Lew(she/her)
Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist
Members of the Lab
Yueyan Tang(she/her)
Postdoctoral Researcher
Zeynep Marasli
Postdoctoral Researcher
Madison Paron
PhD Student
Roxy Borg
Research Assistant
Ellery Yu
Research Assistant
Kali Traversa(she/her)
Research Assistant
Monique Tunnell
Research Assistant
Allie Swanson
Research Assistant
Peter Alisky
Master's Student, Computer Science
Akshat Kalra
Research Assistant
Matt Hsu
Master's Student, Computer Science
Arjun Pawar
Master's Student, Symbolic Systems
Aarin Bothra(he/him)
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Audrey Lee
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Ava Lazar
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Erica Bonbi Park(she/her)
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Finn Järvi
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Gustavo Alejandro Machin Kairuz(he/him)
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Iris Xu
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Jennifer Fung(she/her)
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Katelyn Tran
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Nadia Bounar(she/her)
Research Assistant
Vasu Agarwal(she/her)
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Zadie Diniz(she/her)
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Alumni
| Name | Major | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Emma Montilla | Applied Linguistics | 2023–2025 |
| Noel Guzman | Linguistics & Psychology | 2023–2025 |
| Issa Aboudi | Linguistics | 2023–2025 |
| Madurya Suresh | Linguistics & Computer Science | 2023–2025 |
| Amanda Faber | Linguistics & Philosophy | 2024–2025 |
| Katarina Castro | Linguistics & Psychology | 2024–2025 |
| Theo Zhang | Linguistics & Computer Science | 2024–2025 |
| Adeline Villarreal | Applied Linguistics | 2024–2025 |
| Carissa Ott | Cognitive Science | 2024–2025 |
| Paden Frye | Linguistics | 2024–2025 |
| Kriti Beswal | Psychology and Linguistics | 2024–2025 |
| Elizabeth Garcia | Linguistics & Psychology | 2024–2025 |
| Angelina Silva | Applied Linguistics | 2024–2025 |
| Emma Gonzalez | Physiological Sciences | 2024–2025 |
| Thomas Werner | Applied Linguistics | 2024–2025 |
| Samantha Lin | Psychology | 2024–2025 |
| Celina Espanta | Linguistics & Computer Science | 2024–2025 |
| Ivy Vega | Applied Linguistics | 2025–2025 |
| Ariel Lucas | Psychobiology and Applied Linguistics | 2025–2025 |
| Ali Sartaz Khan | Computer Science (M.S.) | 2025–2026 |
| Landon Choy | Computer Science | 2025–2026 |