CORNELL UNIVERSITY - Key Persons


Abby Cohn

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Amanda Rysling

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
Dr. Rysling is an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is interested in how language is represented and processed; in particular, she seeks cases in which the processing of a linguistic unit is affected by the phonetic, phonological, or prosodic context in which that unit occurs.

Annabelle di Lustro

Job Titles:
  • Grad Student

Bruce McKee

Job Titles:
  • Research Systems Consultant & System Administrator

Chloe Kwon

Job Titles:
  • Grad Student

Corbin Stickley

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant - Social Networking Game Development

Dr. Maher Bahloul

Dr. Maher Bahloul holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University in Linguistics and an MA in Linguistics from Sorbonne University in Paris, France. He has taught courses in language (English, Arabic, and French), translation, and linguistics for the past 30 years. His research interest covers issues in theoretical linguistics, applied linguistics, the sociology of language, teaching and learning pedagogy, the use of arts in education, and Spoken Arabic varieties. He has taught in the United States, North Africa, and the Middle East. Dr. Bahloul has been very active with academic publishing and professional activities. He presented a variety of papers and conducted several workshops in regional and international venues. With around 100 talks and workshops and 30 peer-reviewed books, book chapters and articles, Dr. Bahloul continues to promote the fields of spoken languages, teaching and learning pedagogies, and the use of arts in education.

Draga Zec

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Fengyue (Lisa) Zhao


Jennifer Kuo

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Jeremy Needle

Job Titles:
  • Post - Doctoral Fellow

John R. Starr

Job Titles:
  • Grad Student

John Whitman

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Joshua Guo

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant - Social Network Game Software Development

Kaelyn Lamp

Job Titles:
  • Grad Student

Nianpo Su


Nielson Hul


Sam Tilsen

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Lab Director

Susan Hertz

Job Titles:
  • President of Synfonica LLC

Yao Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Grad Student