The Team
Dr. Ho Ming Chow, PhD,
Principal Investigator
Email: hmc@udel.edu
Dr. Chow received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. After working as an engineer for few years, he became interested in studying human cognition and went to Germany for his doctoral study. He obtained his PhD. in Cognitive Sciences with an emphasis on Cognitive Psychology at the University of Osnabrück. He completed his postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health. Before joining the University of Delaware in 2019, he was a research faculty at the University of Michigan and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware.
Dr. Evan Usler, PhD
Principal Investigator
Email: eusler@udel.edu
Dr. Usler is an Assistant Professor in Communication Sciences & Disorders in the College of Health Sciences at the University of Delaware and the director of the Interpersonal Neurophysiology Lab. He received his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Purdue University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Boston University and MGH Institute of Health Professions.
Samuel Farrand, MS, CCC-SLP
Research Coordinator
Samuel Farrand is a speech language pathologist in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the College of Health Sciences at University of Delaware. He received his Master’s in Sciences in Speech Language Pathology from Salus University.
Vishruta Prashant Yawatkar
PhD Student
Vishruta earned an integrated BS-MS degree from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune in 2018. While at IISER, she studied the acoustic introductory gestures in songbirds. As a part of her master’s thesis, she worked at the National University of Singapore, where she analyzed underwater bioacoustics data to study the learning of an echolocation task in dolphins. Vishruta graduated with an MS in data science from the University of Delaware in 2021. As a part of her master’s thesis for this degree, she worked on using machine learning methods to evaluate remotely sensed imagery. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the Bioinformatics Data Science Program and is co-advised by Dr. Usler and Dr. Chow. She is interested in using data science techniques and image and signal processing methods to analyze various data, including fMRI and EEG data, to study fluency disorders.
Sayan Nanda
PhD Student
Sayan received his Master of Science in Data Informatics from the University of Southern California in 2019 and his Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology in 2017. Sayan is currently a Ph.D. student in the Communication Sciences and Disorders department. Sayan is primarily interested in stuttering research and the application of machine learning techniques in the same. His focus is on neuroimaging and whole-exome sequencing data.
Pancy Pang
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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Janina Boecher
Ph.D student
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Bryan Lamot
Ph.D student
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