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Faculty Profile

Keiko Ishikawa

Keiko Ishikawa

Assistant Professor

Department of Speech and Hearing Science

Ph.D. Communication Sciences and Disorders

University of Cincinnati

ishikak@illinois.edu

Dr. Ishikawa's clinical and translational research focuses on understanding how voice disorders affect speech intelligibility. The ultimate goal of her research is to generate knowledge that will guide clinical decision making for directly addressing patients’ communicative ability. Dr. Ishikawa's research program lies at the interface of psycho- and physical-acoustic science, linguistics, computer science, and bioinformatics. In particular, her lab is working on the development of a novel automatic speech analysis tool and a perceptual model that incorporates environmental noise for clinical intelligibility measurement.