Panying Rong, Ph.D. MGH Institute of Health Professions

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1 Panying Rong, Ph.D. Phone: MGH Institute of Health Professions 36 First Avenue Boston, MA Education MGH Institute of Health Professions 2013-Now Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders Advisor: Dr. Jordan Green University of Nebraska-Lincoln Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Speech Production Lab, Dept. of Special Education and Communication Disorders Advisor: Dr. Jordan Green University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Science Advisors: Dr. David Kuehn, Dr. Ryan Shosted Nanjing University, China Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (specialized in acoustics) Research Interests Computational modeling of disordered speech Motor speech disorders Structural and functional imaging of speech production Human-computer interactive speech therapy Research Experience Independent Research Experience Dept. of Special Education & Communication Disorders, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Postdoctoral Research Training Nov 2012 June 2013 Multi-factorial modeling of speech impairments due to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) using physiological measures of speech subsystems Dept. of Speech & Hearing Science, University of Illinois Doctoral Dissertation Research Nov 2009 Aug 2012 Using Articulatory Adjustment to Compensate for Hypernasality A Modeling Study Based on Measures of Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA) and Electropalatography (EPG)

2 Panying Rong, Ph.D. Page 2 of 5 Master s Thesis Research Aug Nov 2009 The Effect of Articulatory Placement on the Acoustic Characteristics of Nasalized Vowels Interdisciplinary/Collaborated Research Experience Speech Production Lab, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Postdoctoral Research Fellow Word processing in the brain based on measures of MEG Nov 2012 June 2013 Illinois Phonetics & Phonology Lab, Articulatory Phonetics Lab, University of Illinois Research Assistant Pharyngeal articulation of nasal versus oral vowels Oct 2011 May 2012 Oropharyngeal articulation of phonemic and phonetic nasal vowels in multiple languages May 2010 May 2012 An EPG-aerodynamic study on the relationship between velopharyngeal opening and place of articulation Aug 2010 Dec 2010 Development of a dynamic model of speech aerodynamics Aug 2009 Dec 2009 Beckman Institute, University of Illinois Research Assistant Simulation of the cognitive decision-making process May Jan 2011 Relationship among kinematics, F2 slope & speech intelligibility in dysarthria Nov 2009 Aug 2010 Teaching Experience Dept. of Speech & Hearing Science, University of Illinois Instructor/Teaching Assistant Lab session of SHS 301 General Speech Science ( ) Guest lecturer SHS 301 General Speech Science (2012) SHS 170 Introduction to Human Communication Systems & Disorders (2012) Awards and Honors Ehud and Janie Yairi International Graduate Student Award Fund University of Illinois, Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence Award University of Illinois, 2011 Elaine Paden Award University of Illinois, Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence Award University of Illinois, 2009 People s Scholarship Nanjing University,

3 Panying Rong, Ph.D. Page 3 of 5 Publications Peer-reviewed Journal Articles 1. Panying Rong and David Kuehn, The effect of articulatory adjustment on reducing hypernasality, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Vol. 55: , Panying Rong, Torrey Loucks, Heejin Kim, and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson. Relationship between kinematics, F2 slope and speech intelligibility in dysarthria due to cerebral palsy, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, Vol. 26(9): , Ryan Shosted, Christopher Carignan, and Panying Rong. Managing the distinctiveness of phonemic nasal vowels: Articulatory evidence from Hindi, Journal of Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 131(1): , Christopher Carignan, Ryan Shosted, Chilin Shih, and Panying Rong. Compensatory articulation in American English nasalized vowels, Journal of Phonetics, Vol. 39(4): , Panying Rong and David Kuehn, The effect of oral articulation on the acoustic characteristics of nasalized vowels, Journal of Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 127(4): , Conference Papers 6. Panying Rong, Ryan Shosted, and David Kuehn. Articulatory differences between oral and nasal vowels based on the simulation of a speaker-adaptive articulatory model, InterSpeech2012, Portland, September Panying Rong, Ryan Shosted, and Christopher Carignan. The relationship between velopharyngeal opening and place of articulation: An aerodynamic and EPG investigation. In D. Ostry, S. R. Baum, L. Ménard, and Vincent L. Gracco (eds.), Proceedings of the 9 th International Seminar on Speech Production, Montreal: UQÀM, Ryan Shosted, Christopher Carignan, and Panying Rong. Estimating vertical larynx position with EMA, In D. Ostry, S. R. Baum, L. Ménard, and Vincent L. Gracco (eds.), Proceedings of the 9 th International Seminar on Speech Production, Montreal: UQÀM, Heejin Kim, Panying Rong, Torrey Loucks, and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson. Kinematic Analysis of Tongue Movement Control in Spastic Dysarthria, InterSpeech2010, Makuhari, Japan, September Professional Presentations 1. Panying Rong, Jordan Green, and Yana Yunusova. Speech intelligibility loss as a function of speech subsystem motor decline due to ALS, platform presentation in 2013 ASHA Convention, Chicago, Illinois, November, Panying Rong and David Kuehn. Using Speaker-based oropharyngeal articulatory adjustment to reduce hypernasality, platform presentation in 12 th International Congress on Cleft Lip/Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies, Florida, May Panying Rong, Ryan Shosted, and David Kuehn. Articulatory differences between oral and nasal vowels based on the simulation of a speaker-adaptive articulatory model, platform presentation in 13 th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Portland, September Panying Rong, Ryan Shosted, and Christopher Carignan. The relationship between velopharyngeal opening and place of articulation: An aerodynamic and EPG investigation, poster presentation in 9 th International Seminar on Speech Production, Montreal, Canada, June Ryan Shosted, Christopher Carignan, and Panying Rong. Estimating vertical larynx position with EMA, poster presentation in 9 th International Seminar on Speech Production, Montreal, Canada, June Panying Rong, Heejin Kim, Torrey Loucks, and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson. Tongue-jaw coordination in

4 Panying Rong, Ph.D. Page 4 of 5 spastic dysarthria, poster presentation in 6 th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Groningen, Netherland, June Panying Rong, and David Kuehn. Development of articulatory adjustment to compensate for hypernasality, platform presentation in the Speech Production Workshop, Urbana, Illinois, May Panying Rong, and David Kuehn. Development of Articulatory Adjustment to Compensate for Velopharyngeal Incompetence, platform presentation in 67 th annual meeting of ACPA, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April Christopher Carignan, Ryan Shosted, Chilin Shih, and Panying Rong. Lingual response to vowel nasalization, platform presentation in the Conference on Phonetic Universals, Germany, October Christopher Carignan, Ryan Shosted, Chilin Shih, and Panying Rong. Lingual co-articulation of nasalized vowels in American English, platform presentation in 2010 Illinois Speech Day Workshop, Chicago, Illinois, May Panying Rong and David Kuehn. The Effect of Compensatory Articulation on Vowel Nasalization, poster presentation in 2009 ASHA Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, November Panying Rong and David Kuehn. The Effect of Oral Articulation on the Acoustic Characteristics of Vowel Nasalization, poster presentation in 2009 Illinois Speech Day Workshop, Chicago, Illinois, May Panying Rong and David Kuehn. The Effect of Articulatory Placement on Acoustic Characteristics of Vowel Nasalization, poster presentation in 156 th Meeting of Acoustic Society of America, Miami, Florida, November Research Support Using articulatory adjustment to compensate for hypernasality A modeling study based on measures of Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA) and Electropalatography (EPG), Campus Research Board, University of Illinois, Professional Service Reviewer Journal of Acoustical Society of America (2012, 2013) Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research (2010, 2013) Journal of Phonetics (2009) The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal (2008) Student Organizer Speech Production Research Education Initiative, UIUC ( ) Professional Membership Student member, International Speech Communication Association (InterSpeech) ( ) Student member, American Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA) ( ) Technical Skills Computational environment and operating system: PC (Windows and Linux), Mac (OS X), Basic system administration knowledge (Microsoft Office, Access)

5 Panying Rong, Ph.D. Page 5 of 5 Programming: MATLAB, C Language Skills Native: Chinese Fluent: English, Mandarin Chinese