Nicole Enos & Pandu Laksono present their project at BU Biomedical Engineering Senior Design Conference 2019!
Congratulations to seniors Nicole Enos & Pandu Laksono on their senior design project, “Automatic quality analysis of high speed videoendoscopic images during running speech” at the BU Senior Design Project Conference today, mentored by Dr. Cara Stepp and Manuel Diaz Cadiz!
Dr. Elizabeth Heller-Murray successfully defends her dissertation!
Congratulations to Stepp Lab member Dr. Elizabeth Heller-Murray for the successful defense of her dissertation, “Vocal motor control in school-age children with and without vocal fold nodules.” Excellent work, Liz!
New paper out on the relationship between vocal effort and phsyiological mechanisms!
Check out our new paper, “The Relationship Between The Relationship Between Physiological Mechanisms and the Self-Perception of Vocal Effort” by Victoria S. McKenna, Manuel E. Diaz-Cadiz, Adrianna C. Shembel, Nicole M. Enos, and Cara E. Stepp in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research! https://pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1044/2018_JSLHR-S-18-0205
Submission Open for 2019 Boston Speech Motor Control Symposium
We are now accepting submissions for travel fellowships (for undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral trainees) and abstracts (oral and poster presentations) for the 2019 Boston Speech Motor Control Symposium. The symposium will be held on on Friday, June 21, 2019 at the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering located on the Boston University […]
Congratulations to Stepp Lab undergraduate students Austeja Subaciute, Kat Kolin, Roxanne Segina, and Dante Cilento, who gave excellent poster presentations at the 2018 UROP symposium today!
Matti Groll qualifies for the Boston Marathon 2020!
Congratulations to Matti Groll for completing his first marathon on October 7th 2018 with a time of 2:48:44 and qualifying for the Boston Marathon 2020!
Dante Cilento to be inducted to the BU Scarlet Key Honor Society
Stepp Lab undergraduate research assistant Dante Cilento has been selected to be inducted to the BU Scarlet Key Honor Society! For 80 years, the Scarlet Key Honor Society has been the highest honor awarded to Boston University student leaders. Inductees are students in their senior year who have exhibited exceptional leadership among their peers during […]
Dr. Gabriel Cler successfully defends his dissertation!
Congratulations to Stepp Lab member Dr. Gabriel Cler for the successful defense of his dissertation “Computational Optimization and Prediction Strategies for Increasing Communicate Rate in Phoneme-Based Augmentative and Alternative Communication.” Fantastic work, Gabe!
Defne Abur selected to receive a Hariri Graduate Fellowship!
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Defne Abur for receiving a Hariri Graduate Fellowship! The Hariri Graduate Fellows Program recognizes outstanding PhD graduate students who pursue computational and data-driven research at Boston University.
New article in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
Our newest article, “Prediction of optimal facial electromyographic sensor configurations for human-machine interface control,” is available for open access! Check it out!