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Data analyst and speech scientist specializing in quantitative and computational projects.

Technical expertise in data visualization, statistical modeling, and application building.

Domain expertise in linguistics, acoustics, cognitive science, and public-sector collective impact work.





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I am looking for positions in the San Francisco Bay Area or remote roles starting in September-October 2020.


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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

Review panel member

ArtsEdSearch

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2019-2020

Volunteer

Lakeview Pantry

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2018

Volunteer data scientist

Chi Hack Night

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2017

Office manager

Berkeley Linguistics Society

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2011