Kelvin Tran
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Mail code: 0102Campus: Dtphx
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Student Information
Graduate StudentSpeech and Hearing Science (Auditory and Language Neuroscience)
Health Solutions
I am a first-generation college graduate and a Ph.D. student hoping to use my research experience to better the world. My research experience and master thesis involved using statistics and predictive analytics to track and reduce hospitalizations for terminally ill patients.
My current research revolves around the impact of speech compression algorithms on acoustic and perceptual measures of remotely transmitted dysarthric speech. My preliminary analysis of the changes introduced as part of this compression process was presented at Interspeech 2022, a global conference focused on cognitive intelligence for speech processing and application, in Incheon, South Korea. Subsequently, I investigated and presented the magnitude of the impact of this compression process on paralinguistic/perceptual features at the Motor Speech 2024 conference in San Diego, California.
Paramanandam, G., Boohene, J., Tran, K., & Volk-Craft, B. E. (2020). Impact of a hospital community-based palliative care partnership: continuum from hospital to home. Journal of palliative medicine, 23(12), 1599-1605.
Tran, K., Xu, L., Stegmann, G., Liss, J., Berisha, V., & Utianski, R. L. (2022). Investigating the Impact of Speech Compression on the Acoustics of Dysarthric Speech. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (Vol. 2022, pp. 2263-2267).
Tran, K., Xu, L., Stegmann, G., Liss, J., Berisha, V., & Utianski, R. L. (2022). Investigating the Impact of Speech Compression on the Acoustics of Dysarthric Speech. Pathological Speech Analysis; Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association [Conference Presentation], INTERSPEECH 2022, Incheon, South Korea.
Tran, K., Xu, L., Utianski, R., Liss, J., Berisha, V. (2024). Reliability of Perceptual Measures for Telehealth Assessments of Dysarthric Speech. Biennial Motor Speech Conference [Conference Presentation], San Diego, CA, United States.
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Fellow: 2024 - Present
International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Student Member
Graduate & Professional Association (GPSA) Awards Reviewer: Fall 2021 - Fall 2022