Fenqi Wang

Mayo Clinic
fenqiw@gmail.com.

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I am a Research Fellow in Neurology Artificial Intelligence at Mayo Clinic, where I collaborate with Dr. Hugo Botha to apply deep learning models for monitoring neurodegenerative diseases, particularly frontotemporal dementia, through remote voice recordings.

Before joining Mayo Clinic, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University. I hold a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Florida, where I was mentored by Dr. Ratree Wayland.

My research spans speech production and perception, computational modeling, and using speech as biomarkers. Alongside my work in neurodegenerative diseases, I explore the expression and perception of vocal emotions across different languages, aiming to enhance our understanding of emotional communication. I also investigate phonetic variation in accented Mandarin through advanced deep/machine learning models.

With expertise in both speech sciences and computational methods, my research focuses on uncovering patterns and variations in speech to address real-world challenges, including emotional speech processing and health-related applications. My work has been published in various journals and conferences.

news

Aug 27, 2024 A co-authored paper on lenition has been published in the journal JASA.
Feb 28, 2024 A paper has been published in the journal Languages.
Jun 2, 2023 A new co-authored paper has been published in the Journal of French Language Studies.

selected publications

  1. JASA
    Evaluating the consistency of lenition measures: Neural networks’ posterior probability, intensity velocity, and duration
    Kevin Tang, Ratree Wayland, Fenqi Wang, Sophia Vellozzi, and Rahul Sengupta
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2024
  2. LAN
    The effect of pitch accent on the perception of English lexical stress: Evidence from English and Mandarin Chinese listeners
    Fenqi Wang, Delin Deng, Kevin Tang, and Ratree Wayland
    Languages, 2024
  3. JFLS
    The pitch contour of the French discourse marker donc: A corpus-based study using generalized additive mixed-effects modeling (co-first author)
    Delin Deng, Fenqi Wang, and Ratree Wayland
    Journal of French Language Studies, 2023