Undergraduate SLAMers were accepted into Scholars Program

Congratulations! Recently, our undergraduate lab member Ryan Aponte was selected as Fernandez Family Scholar, in recognition of excellent progress and interest in research and graduate studies, and was accepted into the McNair Scholars Program and University Scholars Program to pursue intriguing research with Dr. Tang. In addition, another undergraduate lab member Rayyan Merchant was also […]

Dr. Tang presented at the UFII Covid-19 Seed Awardees Virtual Seminar Series

Dr. Tang is invited to present at the UFII Covid-19 Seed Awardees Virtual Seminar Series and his talk is titled: Covid-19, an accelerator of science: Evidence from convergence in collaboration and language Friday, December 11, 2020 12:00PM – 1:00PM Via Zoom Dr. Tang looked at evidence for convergence in collaboration and language driven by COVID-19 […]

Dr. Tang Gave a Talk on the MAPS Fall Research Forum

Dr. Tang was invited by the MAPS (Multicultural Association for Pre-Health Students) Fall Research Forum and gave a talk titled “Science without borders: where linguistics meets human health research” on November 23rd, 2020. In the talk, he illustrated how linguistics, the science of language, can play a role in human health research. He presented an […]

Dr. Tang Gave a Recorded Talk for One Health Week 2020

Dr. Tang was invited to make a video by One Health on what One Health means to him for One Health Week. He highlighted a few human-health related projects (one of which is in collab with UF One Health) and briefly discussed how linguistic research can contribute to healthcare. Please find his talk below for […]

Two abstracts from the lab were accepted by OCP18

Congratulations! Two abstracts from Dr. Tang and other lab members were accepted by the 18TH Old World Conference on Phonology (https://ocp18.uib.cat/). The conference will be held at the University of the Balearic Islands from the 27th to the 30th of January 2021. Please follow up and look forward to their intriguing presentations! TITLE: A Richer Model […]

Dr. Tang was invited by Trinity College Dublin to give a speech on the predictability of linguistic units

Dr. Tang was invited by the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering of Trinity College Dublin to give a talk on the predictability of linguistic units in spoken spontaneous speech. In the talk, he will demonstrate how understanding fine-phonetic variations will not only reveal the different communicative strategies employed by interlocutors but also how the mental […]

One NSF funded PhD position available at UF: Phonetics, Laboratory Phonology and Computational Linguistics

The Speech, Lexicon and Modeling Lab (slam.lin.ufl.edu) within the Department of Linguistics (lin.ufl.edu) at the University of Florida is accepting applicants to the Linguistics PhD program. A PhD student position is available fully funded for three years to work in the Speech, Lexicon and Modeling Lab with Dr. Kevin Tang and Dr. Ratree Wayland in […]

Dr. Tang will give a speech on NLP in the CLAS AI Workshop

Dr. Tang is invited as one of the panelists to introduce how NLP can empower both STEM and humanities researchers alike on October 20th in the CLAS AI Workshop. Please join him to learn more about NLP. The link attached below is for your registration. CLAS AI Workshop: Natural Language Processing

Drs. Kevin Tang and Ratree Wayland win $750,000 NSF Funding

Congratulations to Drs. Kevin Tang and Ratree Wayland, whose joint project with Dr. Lori Altmann and Dr. Yong-Kyu Yoon, titled, “SenSE: Smart Electropalatography for Linguistic and Medical Applications (SELMA)” was awarded a $750,000 NSF Grant. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2037266&HistoricalAwards=false

SLaM lab (Kevin Tang & Josh Martin) received UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute Precision Health Initiative Pilot Award

A new University of Florida transdisciplinary collaboration has been awarded nearly $50,000 to help reduce colorectal cancer screening inequities affecting African-American patients, by optimizing the delivery of a mobile screening intervention. The project, titled A Sociolinguistic-Enabled Web Application to Precision Health Intervention for African Americans, is funded through a $49,004 UF Clinical and Translational Science […]

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