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Congratulations to Prof. Christina Hagedorn!
CUNY presented Christina with the Henry Wasser Award for Outstanding Research (https://csitoday.com/2022/05/two-csi-asst-profs-receive-gross-wasser-awards/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=two-csi-asst-profs-receive-gross-wasser-awards)
Welcome to our Fall 2022 cohort!
PhD: Emmanuel Bawa, Ibrahim Abuelrob, Clara McMahon, Yana Miroshnychenko, Shane Quinn
MA: Zainab Akande, Nhia Borja, Rebekha Chavarin, Jalitza Gutierrez, Kaitlyn Massiah, Hui Lin Tan, Nishta Trivedi, Nicholas Uva, Kathryn Vincent, Yukun Zhang
Congratulations to Carolina Fraga for giving a talk at the Cambridge University!
Carolina Fraga gave an invited talk at the Cambridge University Romance Linguistics Circle (RoLinC: https://rolinc.org/) on May 10, 2022, on "Completive 'todo' in Rioplatense Spanish". RoLinC is jointly organized by the University of Cambridge and the University of Newcastle (UK).
Congratulations to our 2021-2022 graduates!
PhD: Boram Kim, Susana Huidobro, Chaya Nove, SeJin Oh, and Jennifer Seale
MA: Kelsey Bourque, Matthew Kadish, Jonathan I. Manczur, Lara Novic, Yuying Ren, Yulia Spektor, and Natalia Tyulina
Congratulations to Prof. Kyle Gorman for receiving another PSC-CUNY grant!
Prof. Kyle Gorman received another PSC-CUNY grant. See here for more details.
Prof. Gorman also gave two talks at:
Michigan State University on 3/3/2022, titled “Phonotactics in phonological theory”. See here for more info.
Johns Hopkins University on 4/1/2022, titles “Weighted finite-state transducers: the later years”. See here for more info.
Hooray for Mariana Graterol for securing a summer internship at Nvidia as a language specialist!
Prof. Irina Sekerina received 2 awards!
1. A senior fellowship at the University of Cologne (Germany) for October-November, 2022, in CRC 1252 project on prominence.
2. A Fulbright award to go to São Paulo (Brazil) in the spring-summer 2023.
Congratulations to the following students who’ve secured summer internships:
Natasha Tyulina at Deloitte as a Data Science NLP Intern
LeeAnn Stover at Google as a Linguist Intern
Enas Albasiri at Nvidia as Language Specialist, Speech AI
Stefanie Reed at Microsoft
Prof. Kyle Gorman was awarded a PSC-CUNY grant
Prof. Kyle Gorman was awarded a PSC-CUNY “B” grant award for a project titled, Neural diacritization.
Congratulations to our PhD Candidates
Xiaomeng (Amy) Ma and Hagay Schurr are getting a Graduate Center Dissertation Year (2022-2023) award.