![](https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/explorecsr/wp-content/uploads/sites/157/2020/11/Andres2-1.jpg)
Dr. Andrés Buxó-Lugo
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology at University of Maryland
Research interests: prosody in speech, language production and cognition
![](https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/explorecsr/wp-content/uploads/sites/157/2020/11/Paulo.png)
Dr. Paulo Carvalho
Research Scientist, Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Research interests: attention in learning, memory, learning theories
![](https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/explorecsr/wp-content/uploads/sites/157/2020/11/Nichol.png)
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
![](https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/explorecsr/wp-content/uploads/sites/157/2021/01/Derek.png)
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
![](https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/explorecsr/wp-content/uploads/sites/157/2020/11/Julia-1.png)
Dr. Julia Hyland Bruno
Presidential Scholar, Center for Science and Society at Columbia University
Research interests: zebra finch vocal learning, social communication
![](https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/explorecsr/wp-content/uploads/sites/157/2020/11/Eddie-1.png)
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
![](https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/explorecsr/wp-content/uploads/sites/157/2020/11/Christina_crop-1-1.gif)
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
![](https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/explorecsr/wp-content/uploads/sites/157/2020/12/Hilary-1.png)
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
![](https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/explorecsr/wp-content/uploads/sites/157/2020/11/Maria.png)
Dr. Maria Zapetis
Postdoctoral Associate, National Marine Mammal Foundation
Research interests: bottlenose dolphin communication, conservation biology, acoustic impacts on marine wildlife
Workshop Coordinator
![](https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/explorecsr/wp-content/uploads/sites/157/2021/03/Chow016628129-1505838877-O-1024x1011.png)
Dr. Karen Chow
Assistant Director, Center for Cognitive Science at University at Buffalo