Nishmar Cestero

This summer I got the opportunity to work with Dr. Julia Hirschberg, professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department at Columbia University and Dr. Michelle Levine, a professor in the Psychology Department at Barnard College. The following is a summary of their research interests. For more information, please click on their names to be redirected to their websites.

Dr. Julia Hirschberg

  • Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing
  • Emotional Speech
  • Spoken Dialogue Systems
  • Deceptive Speech
  • Entrainment/alignment In Dialogue
  • Text-to-scene Generation
  • Speech Summarization
  • Code-switching

Dr. Michelle Levine

  • Language production and perception
  • Interpersonal communication processes
  • Communication technology
  • Deceptive speech across culture
  • Emotion and perception across gender and cultures
  • Auditory and visual communication cues in collaborative
  • music-making across face-to-face and mediated settings