Dr. Andrés Buxó-Lugo
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology at University of Maryland
Research interests: prosody in speech, language production and cognition
Dr. Paulo Carvalho
Research Scientist, Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Research interests: attention in learning, memory, learning theories
Dr. Nichol Castro
Assistant Professor, Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences at University at Buffalo
Research interests: word organization in memory, word retrieval, network structure
Dr. Derek Zhiyuan Cheng
Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead Manager, Google
Research interests: data mining and modeling, information retrieval and the Web, machine intelligence
Dr. Julia Hyland Bruno
Presidential Scholar, Center for Science and Society at Columbia University
Research interests: zebra finch vocal learning, social communication
Dr. Eduardo Mercado
Director, Center for Cognitive Science; Professor, Department of Psychology at University at Buffalo
Research interests: cortical plasticity, animal bioacoustics, learning in ASD individuals
Christina Perazio
Assistant Teaching Professor, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at University of New England; Doctoral Candidate, Evolution, Ecology and Behavior at University at Buffalo
Research interests: behavioral ecology, conservation behavior, humpback whale communication and the effects of noise
Hilary Kates Varghese
Doctoral Student, Oceanography at University of New Hampshire
Research interests: animal communication in the ocean, effects of anthropogenic noise on marine life
Dr. Maria Zapetis
Postdoctoral Associate, National Marine Mammal Foundation
Research interests: bottlenose dolphin communication, conservation biology, acoustic impacts on marine wildlife
Workshop Coordinator
Dr. Karen Chow
Assistant Director, Center for Cognitive Science at University at Buffalo