Stephen Tobin conducts research into speech production, speech perception and speech and language technology. From 2020 he complemented his studies in the areas of linguistics and cognitive science by attending a series of courses at the Institute of Computer Science.

He joined the Complex Multimedia Application Architectures group in 2022 and contributes to the X-Teach VR project. Over the course of the project foreign language and multilingual components will be added to the existing VR Classroom. 

• Phonetic convergence und production-perception relations
• Technologies for language learning and teaching
• Technologies linguistic-phonetic data collection
• Modelling and simulation of speech and communication processes

• BA (Hons) Modern & Medieval Languages; Girton College, University of Cambridge (2003)
• MA Linguistics (Phonetics); University of Southern California (2005)
• PhD Psychology (Language & Cognition); University of Connecticut (2015)

2022-current        Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, University of Potsdam, Institute of Computer Science
2021-2021        Phonetics Lab Manager, Humboldt University, Institute of German Language and Linguistics
2020-2022        Independent Contractor, Berlin, (Data Analysis, English Tutoring)
2018-2020        Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan, Linguistics Department
2014-2018        Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, University of Potsdam, Linguistics Department
2012-2014        Assessment Specialist, Educational Testing Service, Assessment Development

• X-Teach VR (Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre; PI: Lucke), 2022-current
• The time course of speech perception and production in individual language users (NSF; co-PIs: Beddor, Coetzee), 2018-2019
• Syllables and the timing of speech (ERC; PI: Gafos), 2014-2015
• Extending the theory of articulatory phonology in speech and reading (NIH/NICHD; PI: Fowler), 2009-2010
• Compensation for coarticulation: Implications for speech perception (NSF; co-PIs: Magnuson, Fowler, Viswanathan), 2007-2008
• Dynamics of vocal tract shaping (NIH/NIDCD; co-PI: Byrd, Narayanan), 2005-2006

Stephen Tobin