Research Experience
June 2020 - December 2022
Graduate Research Assistant
Organizing database and analyzing data for Spencer Smith, Ph.D, Au.D
Reviewing the literature about spatial listening, and the efferent neural mechanisms effects on periphery
Creating the experiments protocols
Managing the lab website
Texas Auditory Neuroscience (TexAN) Lab, UT-Austin
June 2022 - September 2022
Graduate Research Assistant
Developing experiment and analyzing data for Rosemary Lester-Smith, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Reviewing the literature about language and speech performance of population with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
Deciding the acoustic, speech, and language biomarkers, collecting and analyzing speech samples
Creating the experiments protocols
Voice Lab, UT-Austin
May 2015 - July 2016
Research Assistant
Organizing database and analyzing data for Pui Fong Kan, Ph.D, CCC-Slp
Training new research assistants in the lab
Collaborating with the RAs in San Francisco
Managing the lab website
Child Language and Learning Lab, CUB
February 2015 - June 2015
Research Assistant
Collecting data for Bhuvana Narasimhan, Ph.D
Producing Stimuli for chapter “The Influence of Visual, Auditory, and Linguistic Cues On Children’s Novel Verb Generalization”
Language, Development, and Cognition Lab, CUB
July 2011 - June 2014
Research Assistant
Collecting data from 3 to 6-year-old mandarin-speaking subjects every 3 months for Li-Mei Chen, Ph.D
Providing direct assistance by recording procedure and assessment tools organization
Designing the software “TCSIM” (Mandarin version of TOCS+) with assistance from Prof. Megan Hodge’s team at University of Alberta
Transcribing data into IPA symbols and analyzing F1 and F2 of vowels in TF32
Preparing publication drafts in consonants, tones, and vowels
Training the members in the lab
Collaborating with Prof. D. Kimbrough Oller’s team at the University of Memphis in examining the acoustic analysis software LIPP
Organizing annotated bibliography about Mandarin-speaking children with Cerebral Palsy
Prof. Li-Mei Chen’s Research Lab, NCKU, Taiwan
Clinical Experience
June 2022 - August 2022 (124 hours)
Graduate Clinician
Supervisor: Sara C. Morton, M.S.Ed., CCC-A
Evaluating basic audiogram and tympanometry for children and adults
Evaluating cochlear implants candidates
Conducting cochlear implants mapping, and osseointergrated devices consultation, fitting, and follow-up meetings
Austin ENT Clinic-Dr. James Kemper’s Office, TX
January 2022 - May 2022 (190 hours)
Graduate Clinician
Supervisor: Angel F. De La Cruz, Au.D, F-AAA
Conducting comprehensive diagnostic hearing evaluation for children and adults
Conducting hearing aids consultation, fitting, and follow-up meetings
Austin Regional Clinic-Round Rock, TX
August 2021 - December 2021 (170 hours)
Graduate Clinician
Supervisors: Chelsea Burns, Au.D, CCC-A, and Sarah Ganske, Au.D., CCC-A
Conducting behavioral audiometry (including VRA, CPA) for children
Conducting behavioral audiometry (including VRA, CPA) and traditional audiometry for children
Conducting Distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs)
Conducting devices include traditional hearing aids, bone conduction hearing devices, CROS devices, FM system/ Hearing assistive technology evaluations and fitting
Conducting devices check include programming, verification, and counseling
Seton Children’s Ear, Nose and Throat Center , TX
May 2021 - August 2021 (158 hours)
Graduate Clinician
Supervisors: Michelle Hsieh Pho, Au.D, Ph.D., CCC-A, and Madison Loffler, Au.D., CCC-A, FAAA
Conducting behavioral audiometry (including VRA, CPA) for children
Conducting sedated and non-sedated Auditory Brainstem Response (ABRs) testing, and Distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs).
Conducting Ototoxicity monitoring and inpatient bedside hearing screening
Dell Children’s Medical Center (Ascension) , TX
January 2021 - May 2021 (263 hours)
Graduate Clinician
Supervisors: Deepa Suneel, Au.D, and Elaine Leatherwood, M.A., CCC-A, FAAA
Conducting diagnostic audiometry for children and adults
Conducting comprehensive hearing aid services
Assessing vestibular system with Vestibular Nystagmography (VNG)
Conducting electrophysiologic testing, including neurodiagnostic Auditory Brainstem Response (ABRs), Electrocochleography (ECochGs), Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potential (VEMPs)
Austin Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) Clinic- Central , TX
August 2020 - December 2020 (217.7 hours)
Graduate Clinician
Supervisor: Angel F. De La Cruz, Au.D, F-AAA
Conducting comprehensive diagnostic hearing evaluation for children and adults
Conducting hearing aids consultation, fitting, and follow-up meetings
Austin Regional Clinic-Round Rock, TX
June 2020 - August 2020 (117.5 hours)
Graduate Clinician
Supervisors: Amanda Zappler, Au.D, CCC-A and Sangeeta C. Kamdar,Ph.D, Au.D, CCC-A
Evaluating comprehensive audiometry virtually via SimuCase, AudsimFlex, and Virtual Audiometer (VAS)
Conducting summer camp Crew at the Zoo for school-age children (age around six to eight years old)
Conducting four week virtually aural rehabilitation
Conducting hearing conservation programs with college-age students
University of Tesxas Speech and Hearing Center, TX
March 2020 - May 2020 (59 hours)
Graduate Clinician
Supervisors: Amanda Zappler, Au.D, CCC-A, Sangeeta C. Kamdar,Ph.D, Au.D, CCC-A, and Levi Young, Au.D, CCC-A
Conducting four weeks virtually aural rehabilitation
Fitting and programming hearing aids
University of Tesxas Speech and Hearing Center, TX
February 2020 - March 2020 (47.5 hours)
Graduate Clinician
Supervisor: Jessica DeLaRosa, Au.D, CCC-A
Evaluating basic audiogram and tympanometry for children and adults
Assessing vestibular system with Vestibular Nystagmography (VNG) and Computerized Dynamic Posturography (CDP)
Austin ENT Clinic-Dr. James Kamper’s Office, TX
January 2019 - January 2020 (158.3 hours)
Graduate Clinician
Supervisors: Amanda Zappler, Au.D, CCC-A and Craig A. Champlin, Ph.D, Au.D, CCC-A
Evaluating comprehensive audiological evaluation for adults
Providing hearing aids to adults with limited income through the Sertoma Hearing Aid Recycling Program(SHARP)
Counseling for geriatric patients regarding hearing loss, amplification use and communication strategies
Completing preschool screening rotation with assessing speech, language, and hearing of preschoolers
Measuring objective results to adults with Otoacoustic Emission (OAE), Automatic Auditory Brainstem Response (AABR), neurological ABR, tone burst ABR, click ABR, complex ABR (cABR), Auditory Steady State response (ASSR)
University of Tesxas Speech and Hearing Center, TX
July 2016
Observation
Observing Kathleen Zaccaro, MA, CCC-A and Donna Malsam, Ph.D, Au.D, CCC-A in Adult diagnostic
Observing Shannon Elam, Ph.D, Au.D, CCC-A in Pediatric amplification/cochlear implants
University of Colorado Hospital, CO
Publications
Objective detection of the speech frequency following response (sffr): A comparison of two methods.
Cheng, F.-Y., & Smith, S. (2022). Audiology Research, 12(1), 89-94.
Rapid enhancement of subcortical neural responses to sine-wave speech.
Cheng, F.-Y., Xu, C., Gold, L., & Smith, S. (2021). Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15.
Auditory sensory gating: Effects of noise.
Cheng, F.-Y., Campbell, J., & Liu, C. (submitted).
Auditory brainstem responses to successive sounds: Effects of gap duration and depth.
Cheng, F.-Y., & Champlin, C. A. (2021). Audiology Research, 11(1), 38-46.
The influence of visual, auditory, and linguistic cues on children’s novel verb generalization.
Narasimhan, B., Cheng, F.-Y., Davidson, P., Kan, P. F., & Wagner, M. (2017a). In G. Sengupta, S. Sircar, G. Raman, & R. Balusu (Eds.), Perspectives on the architecture and acquisition of syntax (pp. 217-233). Springer, Singapore.
Longitudinal changes of formant values and vowel space in two mandarin-speaking children before 9 years of age.
Chen, L.-M., Cheng, F.-Y., & Hsu, W. C. (2013). Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19(1).
Acoustic vowel space and speech rate in mandarin-speaking children with cerebral palsy.
Hsu, W. C., Chen, L.-m., & Cheng, F.-Y. (2013). Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19(1).
Speech rate and speech intelligibility in children with cerebral palsy.
Chen, L.-M., Cheng, F.-Y., & Ni, H.-C. (2013). Proceedings of 2012 Language and Language Teaching Conference, 42-47.
Presentation
Effects of preceding vowels on physiological responses to successive consonants.
Cheng, F.-Y., Smith, S., & Champlin, C.A. (2023). In Association for research in otolaryngology 46th annual midwinter meeting. Orlando, FL.
Auditory perceptual shifts from non-speech to speech enhance subcortical auditory processing.
Cheng, F.-Y., Xu, C., Gold, L., & Smith, S. (2022). In Association for research in otolaryngology 45th annual midwinter meeting. Virtual Meeting.
Attention effects on cortical neural processing in spatial listening.
Cheng, F.-Y., Xu, C., Ornelas, M.-E., Goodall, H., Gold, L., & Smith, S. (2021). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(4), A143.
Acoustic bandwidth effects on envelope following responses to simulated bimodal hearing.
Xu, C.,Cheng, F.-Y., Medina, S., & Smith, S. (2021). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(4), A64.
Auditory sensory gating: Effects of noise.
Cheng, F.-Y., Campbell, J., & Liu, C. (2020). In Cognitive neuroscience society 2020. Virtual Meeting.
Auditory brainstem responses to successive sounds: Effects of gap duration and depth.
Cheng, F.-Y., So, W., & Champlin, C. A. (2019). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(4), 2831-2831.
Effects of interaural phase on the frequency following response.
So, W., Cheng, F.-Y., & Champlin, C. A. (2019). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(4), 2832-2832.
Multimodal cues in children’s verb learning.
Narasimhan, B., Cheng, F.-Y., Davidson, P., Kan, P. F., & Wagner, M. (2017b). In Linguistic society of america annual winter meeting 2017. Austin, TX.
Crosslinguistic semantic priming effects in english-language learners.
Cheng, F.-Y., & Kan, P. F. (2016). In Annual conference of the american speech, language, and hearing association. Philadelphia, PA.
Learning grammatical morphemes in L2-english: A comparison between L1-spanish and L1-cantonese children.
Simon-Cereijido, G., Kan, P. F., Cheng, F.-Y., & Wyatt, K. (2016). In National research conference on early childhood.Washington D.C.
Cross-linguistic priming in mandarin-english bilingual speakers.
Cheng, F.-Y., Kan, P. F., & Yamashita, J. (2015). In Annual conference of the american speech, language, and hearing association. Denver, CO.
Phonological features in 4 to 6-year-old mandarin-speaking children.
Cheng, F.-Y., & Ni, H.-C. (2012). In International conference on languages, literatures, and cultures. Taichung, Taiwan.
