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Chao-Yang Lee

Director, Speech Processing Lab

Chao-Yang Lee is an associate professor of hearing, speech and language Sciences at Ohio University. He received his Ph.D. in cognitive science and M.A. in linguistics from Brown University and B.S. in psychology from National Chengchi University. Lee was awarded the F.V. Hunt Fellowship from the Acoustical Society of America for postdoctoral training in speech communication at MIT’s Research Laboratory in Electronics. Lee’s research explores the contribution of phonetic and cognitive knowledge to speech perception and spoken word recognition, particularly pertaining to the processing of lexical tone in Mandarin Chinese. He has also been engaged in collaborative projects with colleagues in hearing science, psychology, linguistics, and music. Lee teaches phonetics, speech science, and experimental phonetics. His teaching has been recognized by the University Professor award at Ohio University and the Excellence in Education program of the Ohio Magazine. Lee is the director of studies for the honors tutorial program in hearing, speech and language sciences at Ohio University.

Read more about Lee from Ohio University’s Undergraduate Admissions web site.

Lee enjoys playing and listening to classical music, vegetarian cooking, and following the New England Patriots. He is a proud father of two and was an owner of a Prius for six years.

Current Students

Yu Zhang, Ph.D. student

Lauren Dutton, 2^nd year SLP student

Yuh-Fang Lee, 1^st year SLP student

Jessica Stillwell, undergraduate student

Elizabeth Jordan, undergraduate student

Eleni Gkikas, undergraduate student

Jennifer Harms, undergraduate student

Alumni

Georgia Malandraki (SLP student), Ph.D., Assistant Scientist, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin

Amanda Joos (SLP student)

Sara Kellgreen (SLP student)

Jessica Baker (SLP student)

Anne Marie Christy (SLP student)

Gayatri Ram (SLP student)