Two new PHDs: Congratulations to Keiji Iwamoto and Bihua Chen!

Bihua Chen with her excellent committee (L-R): Profs De Jong, Darcy, Shin, Tucker (online) and Lin.

Congratulations to lab members Keiji Iwamoto and Bihua Chen for their success in defending their doctoral dissertation! They have both done an outstanding job and their committees were impressed - way to go !! We are all very proud of you. Next, Bihua will start a job as Assistant Professor at Indiana University this summer, and Keiji will continue at the University of Florida. 

Bihua Chen (2026) Perceptual reconstruction of reduced speech in non-native listening. Department of Second Language Studies & Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University. Defense Date: April 17, 2026. 
Keiji Iwamoto (2026). The perceptual weighting of ‘redundant’ acoustic cues by second language learners and their role for phonological learning. Department of Second Language Studies, Indiana University. Defense Date: April 3, 2026.