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Contact
Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California,
3601 Watt Way, Grace Ford Salvatori 303,
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1693
📧 yubinzha@usc.edu

Education
2019-present, PhD in Linguistics, University of Southern California
2016-2017, MSc in Phonetics, University of Edinburgh
2013-2016, B.S. in Psychology (dual degree), Peking University
2012-2016, B.A. in Chinese Linguistics, Peking University

Honors & Awards
Gold Family Graduate Fellowship, 2024, University of Southern California
Hearing and Communication Neuroscience (HCN) Pre-doctoral Training Fellowship (NIH T32 Training Grant), 2020, University of Southern California
USC Dornsife/Graduate School Fellowship, 2019, University of Southern California
Eric Liddell China Saltire Scholarship, 2016, University of Edinburgh
Scotland Saltire Scholarship, 2016, University of Edinburgh
Chun-Tsung Scholar for undergraduate scientific research, sponsored by the Nobel Prize winner Dr. T. D. Lee, 2015, Peking University

Teaching & Research Experience
Teaching Assistant, 2023, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California
LING 285: Human Language and Technology
Research Assistant, 2023-2024, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California
PI: Louis Goldstein (Flexible Deep Speech Synthesis through Gestural Modeling funded by NSF)
Research Assistant, 2017-2019, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies & Research Center for Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China