Affiliation: Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Keywords: Computational linguistics, language technology, human health, linguistic biomarkers, precision health, speech pathology, minority languages and communities, laboratory phonology, psycholinguistics
Full profile: Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang is a University Professor in English Linguistics with specialisations in Phonetics/Phonology/Morphology at the Department of English Language and Linguistics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He holds a courtesy appointment at the University of Florida in Computational Language Science. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Linguistics from University College London, an M.Eng. and a B.A. in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and his postdoctoral training from Yale University. He’s the director of the Speech, Lexicon, And Modeling lab (SLaM lab) (https://slam.phil.hhu.de/).
His research interests lie in computational linguistics with a special interest in speech technology (phonetics and phonology) and learning mechanism of human and machine. He conducts data-intensive research on linguistic variations, human health research and language technology. His current interdisciplinary research projects include developing a smart pseudo-palate for linguistic and biomedical applications (patent pending) with a focus on evaluating parkinsonism, developing a sociolinguistic-enabled virtual health assistant for African Americans and mitigating social biases in speech technology against minoritized populations such as African American English speakers and people who stutter. He has collaborated with researchers in genetics, engineering, speech pathology, psychotherapy, health communication. His multidisciplinary work has so far been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.