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Industry workshop (11/9) - Dr. Khia Johnson

who: Dr. Khia Johnson
when: Wednesday, 11/9, 2pm
where: virtual talk (contact Hadas for zoom link), or 5-231
what: Khia Johnson has a PhD in linguistics from the university of British Columbia and currently works as a UX Research Scientist on the Reality Labs Research Audio team at Meta. Her research in graduate school focused on corpus and experimental phonetics and psycholinguistics. In her current role, she conducts behavioral and attitudinal human subjects research to evaluate novel audio technology from the perspective of humans.

For more information about her team’s work, see:
https://about.fb.com/news/2020/09/facebook-reality-labs-research-future-of-audio/
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/behind-the-doors-of-metas-top-secret-reality-labs/
https://www.khiajohnson.com/