The Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group (BAyLI) was hosted at the CMB at UC Davis, and organized by Dr. Nora Beier and Noemi Diaz. Several Speakers gave short presentations on topics related to speech processing and Large Language Models. The Key Note lecture was given by Dr. Tamara Swaab. 

The RA's of Swaab lab have presented their posters at the annual URC conference here in Davis! Congrats to Jaime, Haiye, and Kathleen who shared their research.

Katie Sendek, Noemi Diaz, Sarah Wang, Chenke Wei, and Jaime Chou present their posters in Boston at CNS! Good job on all your hard work everyone.

We are proud to announce that our lab members, Zoe and Tim, successfully presented their exit seminars, showcasing the culmination of their rigorous research and hard work.

Chenke Wei, Melissa Jacuinde, and Chloé Amaden present their posters at the annual Psychology Conference at the Center for Mind and Brain.

Congratulations to Tim Trammel on achieving his PhD and becoming Dr. Trammel! We're proud to celebrate this significant milestone with him.

Congratulations to Wenrui Wang for being accepted into Harvard Graduate School of Education! We are thrilled to share in the joy of this significant milestone.

Our lab members traveled to Marseille, France to attend the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language! It was a great occasion for our lab to show our colleagues in the scientific community our newest results. Our members presented a total of 6 posters.

We congratulate Nora Beier, Agnes Gao, Elaina Jahanfard, Katie Sendek, Tim Trammel and Zoe Yang who have all had their abstracts accepted and will present their research on pre-activation and prediction during language processing in mono- and bilingual language users at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) in Marseille. And an extra shout out for Nora Beier, who has also received a travel award from the SNL to attend the meeting.

Tim Trammel’s paper titled “Decoding semantic relatedness and prediction from EEG: A classification method comparison” is published in Neuroimage.

Karen Ly presents her poster at the 2023 ASPIRE student symposium at the Center for Mind and Brain.