David Israel BA is the Manager for Innovation & Development
in the Faculty of Arts at UQ. He is employed by
UniQuest, the University’s commercial arm, to work on development and commercialisation
of the University’s intellectual capital. David has a diverse background across higher education,
business and technology, and brings to the project his management experience in the development
of online business services and products for applied technology.
Dr Michael Harrington, MA Hawaii PhD UCSC
is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at UQ, specialising in second language acquisition.
Michael is the author of articles on second language sentence processing and vocabulary development,
the role of working memory in second language learning, the acquisition of Japanese and English
as second languages and computer-assisted language learning. His current research interests
include memory-based models of sentence processing, and computer-mediated second language
development, as well as the grammatical components of the LanguageMAP™ system.
Dr John Ingram, MEd PhD Alta
is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at UQ, specialising in phonology and phonetics.
John is the author of articles on connected speech processes and connected speech synthesis;
prosody in hypokinetic and ataxic dysarthria; obstruent voicing and glottalic obstruents in Gitksan;
and Vietnamese acquisition of Australian English. His research interests also include psycho-linguistics,
sound change in second language learning, speech perception and production, and automatic speech
processing, as well as the phonological components of the LanguageMAP™ system. John was a
driving force behind the establishment of the Centre for Research in Language Processing & Linguistics at UQ.
Michael Proctor BE (Computer) UNSW, MA (Linguistics) UQ
brings both Engineering and Linguistics expertise to the project. His Masters dissertation concerned
cross-language vowel perception and production for Vietnamese and Japanese speakers of English as a
second language. Michael has eight years experience in hardware and firmware design with James Hardie,
Chubb, Mannesmann and Siemens, and two years experience in the design and implementation of automatic
speech recogntion systems. Michael is the LanguageMAP project coordinator and speech recognition
consultant.
Vikram Goyal BE (Electronics and Communications) Birla Institute of Technology
is the senior software engineer for the LanguageMAP project. He has extensive experience in
all aspects of software design and development, including seven years as a professional
Java developer with international clients including Ernst and Young, Citibank (US), Infosys (India),
and Health Insurance Commission (Aust).
LanguageMAP™ is a project of the:
School of English and Media Studies
at the
University of Queensland
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