People
Current Lab Members
  • Alayna Steim
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Alayna is majoring in Linguistics and minoring in Psychology. She is interested in language acquisition, pronunciation, and communication disorders.

    email: ansteim at iastate.edu
  • Droste Hennings
    M.A. Student
    Research Assistant
    Droste holds an B.A. in English Education from Iowa State University, and is a licensed Iowa school teacher. She is interested in upper-secondary and tertiary language arts pedagogy and assessment.

    email: drosteh at iastate.edu
  • Emily Dux Speltz, Ph.D.
    Postdoctoral Research Associate / Written Language Processing
    Emily holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics & Technology from Iowa State University. Her research interests center around the applications of writing-process research to computer-assisted writing pedagogy.

    email: endux at iastate.edu
  • Fardeen Shaikh
    Master's Student / Artificial Intelligence
    Research Assistant
    Fardeen holds a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology. He is interested in natural language processing.

    email: fsha at iastate.edu
  • Farrah Lewis
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Farrah is majoring in Linguistics and minoring in English, Spanish, and Psychology. She is interested in communication disorders and plans on going to graduate school for Speech-Language Pathology.

    email: flewis at iastate.edu
  • Jennifer Godbersen
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Jennifer is majoring in Linguistics. She is interested in written language processing and forensic linguistics.

    email: jmgodber at iastate.edu
  • MacKenzie Novotny
    Ph.D. Student / Spoken Language Processing
    Research Assistant
    MacKenzie holds an M.A. in TESL/Applied Linguistics from Iowa State University. She is interested in spoken language processing and acquisition with an emphasis on second language pronunciation.

    email: mnovotny at iastate.edu
  • Noëmie Sollier
    Ph.D. Student / Second Language Acquisition
    Research Assistant
    Noëmie holds an M.A. in French Linguistics from Indiana University. She is interested in combining several areas of Computational Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition in order to design language learning tools.

    email: nsollier at iastate.edu
  • Omar Muhammetkulyyev
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Omar is an undergraduate majoring in Software Engineering. He is interested in Natural Language Processing and Software Development.

    email: omar99 at iastate.edu
  • Rebekah Epp
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Bekah is an undergraduate student majoring in linguistics and minoring in TESL. She is interested in second language acquisition and pronunciation, TESL teaching methods, and intercultural communication.

    email: rgreu at iastate.edu
  • Sara Lastine
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Sara is an undergraduate dual majoring in Linguistics and Computer Science. She is interested in Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence.

    email: slastine at iastate.edu
  • Taylor Lors
    Research Technician
    Taylor holds a B.A. in Linguistics from Iowa State University. She is interested in the writing process, especially for second language acquisition, and is also curious about computer-assisted language learning.

    email: tgsmn03 at iastate.edu
  • Wren Bouwman
    Ph.D. Student / Written Language Processing
    Senior Research Assistant
    Wren holds an M.A. in TESL/Applied Linguistics from Iowa State University. She is interested in Old English literature, historical linguistics, and higher education pedagogy.

    email: bouwman at iastate.edu
  • Zoë DeKruif
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Zoë is majoring in Linguistics. She is interested in the relationship between language and culture and in the documentation of endangered languages.

    email: zdekruif at iastate.edu
  • Evgeny Chukharev, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor
    Evgeny holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Herzen State University in Russia and an M.S. in Computer Science from Arkhangelsk State Technical University. He is interested in language processing, language acquisition, and language change. Learn more

    email: evgeny at iastate.edu
Alumni (Graduate)
  • Aysel Sarıcaoğlu Aygan
    Ph.D. Second Language Writing (2015)
    Social Sciences University of Ankara, Republic of Türkiye
  • Hui-Hsien Feng
    Ph.D. Second Language Writing (2015)
    National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
  • Monica Ghosh
    Ph.D. Second Language Pronunciation (2016)
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
  • Mandy Qian
    Ph.D. Second Language Pronunciation (2018)
    LinkedIn Corporation, California, USA
  • Brody Dingel
    M.A. Second Language Vocabulary (2020)
    Bestow, Texas, USA

  • Nazlınur Göktürk Tüney
    Ph.D. Second Language Assessment (2020)
    Ministry of National Education, Republic of Türkiye
  • Laura Raught
    M.A. Historical Linguistics (2021)

  • Alif Silpachai
    Ph.D. Phonetics (2021)
    Radboud University, The Netherlands
  • Savannah Maynard
    M.A. Historical Linguistics (2022)
    JET Program, Japan
  • Nadia Dobrynina
    M.A. Second Language Vocabulary (2023)
    Iowa State University
  • Slava Vovchenko
    M.A. Second Language Pronunciation (2023)
Alumni (Undergraduate)
  • Aaron Zatorski
  • Adam Matthews
  • Andrea Olson
  • Annaliese Pietsch
  • Breanna Planica
  • Carly Johansen
  • Christina Donahoe
  • Elizabeth Longnecker
  • Erin Cannon
  • Holly Appleton
  • James Heckathorn
  • Jamie Smith
  • Joey Hage
  • Katelyn Durbin
  • Kat Stoldt
  • Kaitlyn Cope
  • Kelli Rozendaal
  • Lucas Figueroa
  • Maria Brodskiy
  • Matt DeFelice
  • Matthew Bowden
  • Miles Conlan
  • Ned Watson (Grinnell College)
  • Phillip Weber
  • Rosie Zbaracki
  • Sylvia Dean
  • Robyn Riley
  • Tyler Uhlenkamp