Karee Garvin is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on the phonetics-phonology interface, specifically how abstract phonological representations interact with articulatory timing and planning to shape surface patterns. Integrating speech kinematics with fieldwork on understudied languages, she investigates how cognitive phonological encoding drives phonetic realization and informs cross-linguistic structural variation.

Sharon Inkelas is a Professor in the Linguistics Department at UC Berkeley, where she has taught since 1992. Since her 1989 Stanford University dissertation, her research has focused on the phonology-morphology interface; more recent research projects include Q Theory, child phonology, and Optimal Construction Morphology.

Myriam Lapierre is an Assistant Professor of Phonology at McGill University. Her research integrates phonological theory, articulatory and perceptual phonetics, typological surveys, and fieldwork on Amazonian languages—particularly of the Jê and Tupí-Guaraní families. Her work centers on formal representational models, subsegmental representations, and the cross-linguistic typology of nasal-oral alternations.

Martha Schwarz is an English as a Second Language Instructor at the English Language Institute in San Francisco. She earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics from UC Berkeley, where her research focused on the phonetics-phonology interface, representation, and language documentation. Her dissertation investigated four-way laryngeal contrasts in Nepali, using acoustic data and fieldwork on Indo-Aryan languages to inform theoretical phonology.

Maksymilian Dąbkowski is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong. His research brings grammatical patterns from lesser-studied languages to bear on key questions of linguistic theory. Many of his projects investigate the phonology, morphology, and word-internal syntax of agglutinating languages. He focuses mainly on A'ingae (or Cofán, ISO 639-3: con), an Amazonian isolate spoken in Ecuador and Colombia.

Stephanie Shih is an assistant professor at USC. Her research deploys computational approaches towards understanding the cognitive system of language. In particular, she focuses on the place of phonology within the linguistic system: what is its structure, and what is the nature of its interfaces with other components of language (and beyond)? Computation and natural language data allow us to break open these questions by making language (and its use) a tractable and quantifiable object for scientific study.