Yan Tang, an assistant professor of linguistics, will join Beckman's Illinois Language and Literacy Initiative within the Intelligent Systems research theme as a part-time faculty member. His current research focuses on speech technologies such as speech intelligibility enhancement in adverse listening conditions, computational modelling of speech perception in noise and perceptually motivated context-sensitive speech modification algorithms. His research interests also include speech perception and production in noise, psychoacoustics, source separation, and robust automatic speech recognition.

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