Zhao ‘Ellen’ Peng, Ph.D.

Ellen Peng and Jennifer Francis at Commencement Dec 2014, with Dr. Lily Wang, Joonhee Lee, and Jahae Ri.

Ellen Peng and Jennifer Francis at Commencement Dec 2014, with Dr. Lily Wang, Joonhee Lee, and Jahae Ri.

Congratulations to Zhao ‘Ellen’ Peng, who successfully defended her Ph.D. Dissertation “Designing Acoustics for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms:  Effects of Background Noise, Reverberation and Talker Foreign Accent on Speech Comprehension by Native and Non-Native English-Speaking Listeners” on November 5, 2014, advised by Dr. Lily Wang!  Ellen is off to RTWH Aachen where she will be doing a post-doc with Dr. Janina Fels on an international project “iCARE: improving Children’s Auditory REhabilitation.” Here is a photo from the December 2014 commencement, showing both Ellen and Jenn Francis on this happy occasion!

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