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General Information

Full Name Suyuan Liu
Email suyuan97 [at] student [dot] ubc [dot] ca
Languages Mandarin (Native), English (Fluent), Japanese (Advanced, JLPT N1)
Computing

Education

  • 2015 - now
    PhD in Linguistics
    University of British Columbia, Vancouver
    • Supervisor: Dr. Molly Babel
    • Committee Members:
      • Dr. Márton Sóskuthy, Dr. Jian Zhu, Dr. Alexis Black
    • Dissertation:
      • Relative contributions of perceived standardness and voice similarity on speech processing accuracy in Mandarin-English bilinguals
  • 2025
    Visiting researcher at the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies (CBS)
    Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    • Supervisor: Dr. Yao Yao
    • Project: Cross-generation contrast variation in Beijing and Shanghai Mandarin
  • 2015 - 2019
    B.A. in Linguistics with Honors
    University of California, Los Angeles
    • Minor in Asian Language Study (Specialize in Japanese)
    • Specialization in Computing
    • Member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society

Open Source Projects

  • 2024-now
    MELI Corpus
    • An open-access Mandarin-English Language Interview Corpus.

Grants, Honors and Awards

  • 2025
    • Excellence in Graduate Teaching Assistantship Award, Department of Linguistics, UBC
    • Nominated for the Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
  • 2025
    • Graduate Student Training Fund, Language Sciences, UBC (CAD1,500)
  • 2024
    • Pei-Huang Tung and Tan-Wen Tung Graduate Fellowship (CAD3,200)
  • 2023
    • IPA Student Award, International Phonetic Association (GBP600)
  • 2023
    • Dean of Arts Graduate Student Research Award, UBC (CAD1,000)
  • 2019
    • Departmental Honor, Department of Linguistics, UCLA (USD500)
  • 2019
    • Undergraduate Research and Travel Awards, Department of Linguistics, UCLA (USD900)