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General Information
| Full Name | Suyuan Liu |
| suyuan97 [at] student [dot] ubc [dot] ca | |
| Languages | Mandarin (Native), English (Fluent), Japanese (Advanced, JLPT N1) |
| Computing |
Education
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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
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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
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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
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2024-now MELI Corpus
- An open-access Mandarin-English Language Interview Corpus.
Grants, Honors and Awards
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2025 - Excellence in Graduate Teaching Assistantship Award, Department of Linguistics, UBC
- Nominated for the Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
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2025 - Graduate Student Training Fund, Language Sciences, UBC (CAD1,500)
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2024 - Pei-Huang Tung and Tan-Wen Tung Graduate Fellowship (CAD3,200)
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2023 - IPA Student Award, International Phonetic Association (GBP600)
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2023 - Dean of Arts Graduate Student Research Award, UBC (CAD1,000)
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2019 - Departmental Honor, Department of Linguistics, UCLA (USD500)
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2019 - Undergraduate Research and Travel Awards, Department of Linguistics, UCLA (USD900)