Professional Experience:
Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing, MI Associate Professor Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders |
2024- |
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Affiliated Faculty Health and Risk Communication Center |
2020- |
Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing, MI Assistant Professor Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders |
2018-2024 |
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Research Associate/Post-Doctoral Trainee Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders |
2015-2018 |
Brown University, Providence, RI Lecturer Continuing Education Program |
2013-2014 |
The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY College Assistant New Media Lab |
2013 |
The New School for Liberal Arts, New York, NY Adjunct Faculty Department of Interdisciplinary Science |
2012-2013 |
St. John's University, New York, NY Adjunct Faculty Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders |
2011 |
Lehman College, The City University of New York, New York, NY Research Consultant Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences |
2011 |
Research Center for Science and Technology in Medicine, Tehran, Iran Research Assistant |
2005-2006, 2009 |
Education:
The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY PhD in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Doctoral Advisor: Prof. Glenis Long |
2013-2015 |
The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY MPhil in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences |
2009-2013 |
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran MSc in Electrical Engineering Center of Excellence: Control and Intelligent Processing School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
2006-2009 |
Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran BSc in Biomedical Engineering Department of Biomedical Engineering |
2002-2006 |
Federally-Funded Research Grants:
NIH NIDCD Administrative Supplement to Recognize Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Mentorship ($196K) Role: PI |
2024-2026 |
NIH NIDCD Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research ($138K) "High-Speed Videoendoscopy Analysis for Different Vocal Modalities" Role: PI |
2023-2025 |
NIH NIDCD Early Career Research (ECR) R21 Award ($565K) "Bayesian Data-Driven Subject-Specific Modeling of Voice Production" Role: PI |
2022-2025 |
NIH NIDCD Research Scientist Career Development K01 Award ($700K) "Studying the Laryngeal Mechanisms Underlying Dysphonia in Connected Speech" Role: PI |
2019-2024 |
NIH NIDCD Research Project Grant R01 ($211K) "Towards Precision Assessment of Dysphonic Speech: From Vocal Fold Physiology to Perception" Role: Co-I |
2022-2027 |
Internal Research Grants/Awards:
Tetrad Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research Funding ($30K) "Voice Analysis for Mental Health Evaluation Using AI with Investigation of the Role of Physical Activity in Mental Health" Role: MPI |
2024-2025 |
Henry Ford Health + Michigan State University Health Sciences Cancer Funding ($25K) HFH+MSU Health Sciences Partnership "Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Treatment Outcomes for Patients with Head and Neck Cancer with Focus on Voice" Role: MPI |
2023-2024 |
ComArtSci Research and Creative Incubator and Accelerator (CRCIA) Award ($4.5K) College of Communication Arts and Sciences, MSU "Studying Mechanisms of Singer’s Dystonia using High-Speed Videoendoscopy" Role: PI |
2023-2024 |
Heiss Endowment Award ($39K), Michigan State University Role: PI |
2018-2024 |
Trifecta Initiative Facilitating Funds Award ($4K), Michigan State University |
2020-2021 |
Discretionary Funding Initiative (DFI) ($50K), Michigan State University Foundation |
2019-2020 |
Trifecta Initiative Matching Funds Award ($2K), Michigan State University |
2019-2020 |
Provost's Digital Innovation Grant ($1K), Graduate Center of The City University of New York Role: PI |
2012-2013 |
Awards:
Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award, Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Honor Society | 2023 |
Early Career Contributions in Research Award, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) | 2020 |
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Young Investigator Grant, Women in Acoustics | 2018 |
Sataloff Award for Young Investigators, co-sponsored by Elsevier and The Voice Foundation | 2017 |
The Arthur J. Bronstein and Elsa Bronstein Fellowship for Excellence in Dissertation Writing Award, Graduate Center of The City University of New York |
2014 |
Martin Gitterman Award for Excellence in Teaching, Graduate Center, City University of New York | 2012 & 2013 |
Sue R Zalk Travel and Research Award, Graduate Center of The City University of New York | 2011 |
Honors:
Invited to participate in ASHA's Grant Review and Reviewer Training (GRRT) Program | 2024 |
Invited to give the Young Investigator Award Lecture at the International Forum on Research Excellence (IFoRE), Long Beach, CA. | 2023 |
Invited Speaker at the MSU Board of Trustees Meeting to give a faculty research talk | 2022 |
Mentor in the Mentoring Academic-Research Careers (MARC), ASHA | 2021-2022 |
Accepted into the Early Career Reviewer (ECR) program at the Center for Scientific Review (CSR), NIH |
2021 |
Completed the Summer Vocology Institute: Block 1 and 2 at The National Center for Voice and Speech (NCVS) | 2021 & 2023 |
Accepted into the ASHA Teaching Symposium on Foundational CSD Science Courses | 2021 |
Protege in the Mentoring Academic Research Careers (MARC), ASHA | 2019-2020 |
Lessons for Success, ASHA | 2019 |
Fellowships/Scholarships:
Academic Communications Fellowship, University Communications, MSU | 2020 |
University Fellowship, Graduate Center of The City University of New York | 2009-2015 |
Mechanics of Hearing Scholarship | 2011 |
Science Fellowship, Graduate Center of The City University of New York | 2009-2011 |
Travel Awards:
Special Foreign Travel Fund Award, MSU | 2017 & 2023 |
Post-Doctoral Association Travel Award, MSU | 2018 |
Hannah and Moe Bergman Scholarship Fund Award for Student Conference Travel, Graduate Center of The City University of New York |
2011 |
Awards Received by PI's Students:
PhD Student, Trent Henry, NIDCD Diversity Scholar Travel Award, NIH NIDCD | 2024 |
MD Student, Geil Schock, Third place winner in the Poster Presentation Competition at The 16th Annual Graduate Academic Conference, MSU Council of Graduate Students | 2024 |
Undergraduate Student, Gianna Spinelli, Undergraduate Research and Creative Project (UGRES) Funding, Undergraduate Research Office, MSU | 2024-2025 |
Undergraduate Student, Alexandra Stewart, Undergraduate Research and Creative Project (UGRES) Funding, Undergraduate Research Office, MSU | 2024-2025 |
Undergraduate Student, Samantha James, Undergraduate Research and Creative Project (UGRES) Funding, Undergraduate Research Office, MSU | 2022 & 2023 |
PhD Student, Ahmed Yousef, Sataloff Award for Young Investigators, Co-sponsored by the Voice Foundation and Elsevier | 2022 |
Undergraduate Student, Trent Henry, Rasmussen Doctoral Recruitment Award, MSU. | 2022 |
Undergraduate Student, Trent Henry, Accepted into the Summer Vocology Institute at The National Center for Voice and Speech (NCVS) | 2022 |
Undergraduate Student, Sarah Zenas, Honors College Conference Travel Award, MSU | 2022 |
Undergraduate Student, Trent Henry, Undergraduate Research and Creative Project (UGRES) Funding, Undergraduate Research Office, MSU. | 2021 |
Undergraduate Student, Audrey Deising, Undergraduate Research and Creative Project (UGRES) Funding, Undergraduate Research Office, MSU. | 2021 |
MA Student, Corinne Brown, Sandi Smith Research Fellowship from the Health and Risk Communication Center, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, MSU. | 2019-2020 |
Undergraduate Student, Samantha Scheidler, Robert W. Young Award for Undergraduate Student Research in Acoustics from the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). | 2020 |
Teaching:
Undergraduate/Graduate Courses (MSU):
- CSD 444: Audiologic Assessment and Intervention/Rehabilitation, Springs (2018-2022) and Summers 2018-Present
- CSD 303: Fundamentals of Hearing and Audiometry, Fall 2023
- CSD 990: Independent Study on Signal Processing and Modeling, Fall 2022
- CSD 990: Independent Study on Principles of Signal and Image Processing, Summer 2021
- CSD 990: Independent Study on High-Speed Videoendoscopy Data Analysis, Fall 2019
- CSD 991: Applied Machine Learning: Intelligent Decision Making and Prediction, Spring 2019
- CSD 313: Speech Science, Fall 2018
Undergraduate Courses (The New School for Liberal Arts and St. Johns University):
- LSCI 2037: Foundations of Physics, Spring 2013, the New School for Liberal Arts
- USCI 2036: Physics of Music and Sound, Fall 2012, the New School for Liberal Arts
- CSD 1750: Speech Science, Fall 2011, St. John's University
Pre-College Courses (Brown University):
- The Art of Statics: From Physics to Safe Engineering Structures, Summer 2014
- Physics of Sound and Music, Summer 2014
- From Sound to Synapse: This is Your Brain on Music, Summer 2013
External Professional Service:
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Voice | 2022- |
Session Chair, 1st International & 18th National Speech-Language Pathology Conference, Challenges in Speech-Language Pathology - Processes of Diagnosis and Therapy, Virtual | 2023 |
Special Session Organizer, 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, Forum Acusticum | 2022- |
Poster Contest Committee Member, Annual Voice Symposium | 2022- |
Session Chair, 15th International Conference on Advances in Quantitative Laryngology, Voice and Speech Research (AQL), Phoenix, AZ | 2023 |
Scientific Committee Member, 14th International Conference on Advances in Quantitative Laryngology, Voice and Speech Research (AQL), Bogota, Colombia | 2020-2021 |
Scientific Committee Member, 11th International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics (ICVPB), East Lansing, MI | 2017-2018 |
Review Service:
- Reviewer, Computers in Biology and Medicine (2024-)
- Reviewer, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering (2024-)
- Reviewer, Journal of Digital Imaging (2023-)
- Reviewer, Journal of Biomedical Signal Processing & Control (2023-)
- Reviewer, Journal of Clinical Medicine (2023-)
- Proposal Reviewer, Research and Creative Incubator and Accelerator (CRCIA) Award, College of Communication Arts & Sciences, MSU (2022-)
- Reviewer, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR) (2022-)
- Reviewer, International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders (2022-)
- Reviewer, Scientific Reports - Nature (2021)
- Reviewer, The Journal of Acoustical Society of America (JASA) (2021-)
- Reviewer, The Laryngoscope (2021-)
- Reviewer, Applied Sciences (2021-)
- Grant Reviewer, Canada Research Chair, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (2021-2022)
- Grant Reviewer, Trifecta Initiative for Interdisciplinary Health Research TIFF, MSU (2021)
- Grant Reviewer, The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (2020)
- Reviewer, Journal of Biomechanics (2020)
- Award Reviewer, ASHA's Students Preparing for Academic Research Careers (SPARC) Award (2020)
- Reviewer, PLOS ONE (2019)
- Reviewer, Journal of Voice (2018-)
- Reviewer, Lingua (2018)
- Award Reviewer, Post-Doctoral Association (PDA) Travel Award, MSU (2018)
Internal Professional Service:
Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT) Committee, Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Michigan State University | 2024- |
ComArtSci Awards Committee, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University | 2024- |
Faculty Search Committee, Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Michigan State University | 2019-2021 & 2024- |
Professional Assistantship Mentor, Honors College, MSU | 2019-2022 & 2024- |
Trifecta Advisory Board, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University | 2023- |
PhD Committee, Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Michigan State University | 2023- |
Annual Performance Committee, Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, MSU | 2019-2021 & 2022- |
Linking All Types of Teachers to International Cross-cultural Education (LATTICE), Office of International Studies in Education, MSU | 2022- |
College Research Advisory Committee, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, MSU | 2021- |
Honors College Inclusive Excellence Committee, MSU | 2021- |
University Committee on Honors Programs, MSU | 2021- |
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee, Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, MSU | 2021- |
Associate Dean for Research Search Committee, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University | 2023-2024 |
Engineering and Digital Innovation Center (EDIC) Academic Subject Matter Expert Committee, Michigan State University | 2023 |
Diversity Research Showcase Judge, Honors College, Michigan State University | 2023 |
Judge at The 25th annual University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF), MSU | 2023 |
College Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT) Guidelines Review Committee, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, MSU | 2021-2022 |
College Advisory Council, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, MSU | 2020-2022 |
Faculty Committee, Graduate Center, City University of New York | 2012-2013 |
Executive Committee, Graduate Center, City University of New York | 2011-2012 |
Membership:
Sigma Xi Michigan State University Chapter | 2023- |
ASHA SIG 19, Speech Science | 2022- |
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society | 2021- |
The Voice Foundation | 2021- |
New York Academy of Sciences | 2021-2022 |
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association | 2020- |
ASHA SIG 03, Voice and Upper Airway Disorders | 2020- |
ASHA SIG 02, Neurogenic Communication Disorders | 2020- |
Acoustical Society of America | 2011- |
Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing Association | 2016-2019 |
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics | 2017-2018 |
American Auditory Society | 2013-2014 |
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers | 2010-2011 |