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Emily Cibelli
[ˈɛ.mə.li sɪ.ˈbɛ.li]
Professional Experience
Senior data analyst, Ingenuity Inc.
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2018-present
- Maintain database of the arts in 650 schools and 1400+ non-profit organizations
- Conduct analyses to support initiatives and city and state education policy
- Provide ad-hoc reports and data visualizations for non-profits and philanthropies
- Develop custom applications and dashboards to support data-driven decision-making
Lecturer, ViaX Education
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2018-present
- Develop and teach online research courses and tutorials for undergraduates
- Advise student projects and teach research, statistical, and programming skills
- Provide guidance on higher education admissions and conference presentations
Postdoctoral research associate and lecturer, Northwestern University
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2015-2018
- Designed experiments and ran statistical analyses of linguistic data and corpora
- Implemented speech algorithms and processing pipelines for acoustic speech data
- Secured $500K in internal and national (NIH) grant funding to support research
- Taught linguistics courses and provided advising to 100+ cognitive science majors
Contracted linguist
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2010-2018
- Appen (2018): Created parses of text data to support the development of natural language understanding/generation systems in collaboration with large remote team
- Duolingo (2017): Developed test items of varying grammatical and lexical complexity for English language teaching program
- Powerset (2010): Annotated semantic features in corpora to support development of NLP-based search engine
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. in Linguistics
Berkeley, CA
2015
University of California, Berkeley
M.A. in Linguistics
Berkeley, CA
2011
Wellesley College
B.A. in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
Wellesley, MA
2009
National University of Ireland, Galway
Visiting student
Galway, Ireland
2008
Skills
Technical
R (including tidyverse, shiny, dbplyr, ggplot2, lme4, markdown), SQL, Praat, LaTeX, Python, Jupyter, MatLab
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Analytic
Statistical modeling, data visualization, data app construction, acoustic speech analysis, neural data processing, phonetic transcription
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Languages
English (native), Spanish (intermediate classroom), Finnish (beginning classroom), Garifuna (fieldwork)
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Selected Publications and Reports
Training non-native consonant production with perceptual and articulatory cues
Cibelli, E. Phonetica 77 (1), 1-28.
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2020
State of the Arts in Chicago Public Schools, 2017-18
Ingenuity, Inc. Chicago Public Schools Progress Report, 2017-18.
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2019
Clinical correlates of aberrant conversational turn-taking in youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis
Sichlinger, L., Cibelli, E., Mittal, V., & Goldrick, M. Schizophrenia Research 204, 419.
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2019
The influence of lexical selection disruptions on articulation
Goldrick, M., McClain, R., Cibelli, E., Adi, Y., Gustafson, E., Moers, C., & Keshet, J. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 45(6), 1107-1141.
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2018
Automatic measurement of vowel duration via structured prediction
Adi, Y., Keshet, J., Cibelli, E., Gustafson, E., Clopper, C., and Goldrick, M. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140 (6), 4517-4527.
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2016
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and probabilistic inference: Evidence from the domain of color
Cibelli, E., Xu, Y., Austerweil, J., Griffiths, T., and Regier, T. PLOS ONE, 11.7, e0158725.
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2016
The influence of lexical statistics on temporal lobe cortical dynamics during spoken word listening
Cibelli, E.S., Leonard, M.K., Johnson, K., & Chang, E.F. Brain and Language 147, 66-75.
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2015
Service and Volunteer Work
Ad-hoc reviewer
Cognitive Science Society, Second Language Research, Cognition, Neurospychologia, Phonetica
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2016-2018