Arnold Lab Members
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Dr. Jennifer Arnold, PI (she/her)
Simantika Roy, PhD student 2022- (she/her)
James Kesan, PhD student 2023- (he/him)
Joey Ross, RA 2024-current (he/him)
Kejia Zhang, RA summer 2025-current
Annika-Marie-Herlant, Linguistics Masters student, RA 2025-current
FORMER LAB MEMBERS
GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS
Dr. Elaine Ye, PhD 2025 (she/her), graduate student 2020-2025 and postdoctoral researcher summer 2025
Carolina Martinez Herrera, visiting graduate student from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, spring 2025
Feyza Nur Dik, graduate student
Kathryn Weatherford, graduate student (she/her)
Dr. Elyce Johnson, PhD student 2015-2022
Dr. Valerie Langlois, PhD student 2015-2021, now at Areli, Inc.
Jiefang Li, RA
Sandy Zerkle, MA 2018, now data scientist at Los Alamos
Dr. Iris Strangmann, visiting graduate student 2015-16, now graduate student at CUNY
Dr. Elise Rosa, Ph.D. 2015, now data scientist at Invesco
Dr. Jason Kahn, Ph.D. 2015, now data scientist at Allstate
Dr. Alex Christodoulou; Ph.D. 2012, now VUI designer for Alexa Auto at Amazon
Dr. Yi-Ting Huang, postoc 2009-11, now prof at UMD
Dr. Becky Nappa, postdoc 2007-2008, now researcher at Amazon
FORMER LAB MANAGERS
Giulia Pancani, 2010-12
Kellen Carpenter, 2008-10
Shin-Yi Lao, 2005-2008
FORMER UNDERGRADUATE RAS
Marianne Nguyen, RA 2024-25 (she/her)
Michela Acosta, RA 2024-25 (she/her)
Jacob Bastian, RA 2024-25 (he/him)
Jinrui Liu, RA 2024-25 (she/her)
Jasper Yuetong Liu, RA 2023-24
Valentina Fernandez Escalona, RA 2023-24
Halden Levin, RA 2022-2024
Nicholas Payst, RA 2021-2024
Rowena Luo, RA 2022-24
Ranjani Venkatesh, RA 2021-2024
Eliza Cook
Kally Kumnick, RA 2021-23 (she/her)
Caitlin Thompson, RA 2021-23 (she/her)
Ana Kisley, RA 2022-23 (any pronouns)
Soumya Gudipudi, RA 2022-23 (she/her)
Morgan Davis, RA 2022-23 (she/her)
Jane Xing, RA 2022-23 (she/her)
Avery Wall, RA 2019- 2022
Eri Kakoki, RA 2020- 2022
Sayoni Ghosh RA spring 2021-fall 2022 (she/hers/hers)
Zach Vig, RA 2021-22
Sindhura Kondaveeti, RA 2021-22 (she/her/hers)
Megan Bishop, RA 2021-22 (she/her/hers)2
Maria Carvajal, RA 2021-22 (she/her/hers)2
Lucia Wang, RA 2021-22 (she/her/hers)
Keegan Owens, RA 2021-22 (she/her/hers)
A’sjei Scott, RA 2021-22 (he/they)
Rowan Davis, RA 2021 fall (they/them/theirs)
Ashleigh Davis, RA 2021 fall (she/her/hers)
Lauren Morgan, RA 2021 spring
Taylor Steele, RA, 2018- 2021
Emma Caulfield RA fall 2020- (she/her/hers)
Venkat Ravuri, RA 2020- (he/him/his)
Lamar Richards, RA 2020-2022
Caitlin Huguely, RA spring 2021 (she/her/hers)
Hannah SmithRA spring 2021 (she/hers/hers)
Braxton Hawkins, RA summer 2019- spring 2021 (he/him/his)
Atziri Marquez, Swarthmore student
Genevieve Franck, Mt. Holyoke student
Jiefang Li, RA
Gustavo Nativio, RA 2020
Heather Mayo (she/her/hers; RA fall 2018-spring 2020)
Dariath Klibanow, RA 2017-2020
Lisa Dong, RA, 2019-20
Shuang Guan, RA summers 2019-20
Sophia Barsanti, RA, 2017-19
Madison Goers, RA, 2017-19
Ty’oshia Morgan, RA 2018
Carlie Vasquez, RA 2017-18
Simon Wolf, RA Summer 2017
Grant Egnatz, RA Summer 2017
Alex Walker (RA summer 2017)
Kaeley Jenkins, RA, 2017-18
Saradine Pierre, RA 2016-2017
Leah Daniel, RA 2016-2017
Harvey Liu, RA 2016-2017
Chris Armistead, RA 2016-2017
Ana Medina-Fetterman, RA 2016-2017
Liz Reeder, RA & Honors Thesis Advisee 2016-2017
Margarita Rodriguez, RA, 2016-18
Leah Daniel, RA
Sa’Mone Burton, recent high school graduate at NC Science and Math
Leela Rao, 2014-16
Jacob Pascual, 2015-16
Jenna Roller, 2015-16
Kirsten Bubak, 2015-16
Brianna Torres, RA 2015-16
Anita Simha, 2013-14
Billy Marinello, 2013-14
Bryan Smith, 2013-14
Emily Andino
Taylor Beard, 2013-14
Natashha Vasquez, RA 2013-14
Luke Miller
Natalie Feingold
Ivy Hauser,
Ingrid Tablazon, NC Science and Math student
Michel Chen
Lap-Ching Keung, 2011-12
Richard Harenberg 2011-12
Jennifer LIttle, 2011-12
Isaac Hellemn, 2011-12
Michael Parrish 2010-11
Kayla Finch, 2010-11
Alyssa Ventimiglia, 2009-10
Natalia Bermudez, 2009-10
Sidney Holt, 2010-11
Andrs Buxo, 2010-11
Molly Bergeson, 2010-11
Elizabeth Wagstaff, 2010-11
Sam Handel, 2009-10
Leighanne McGill, 2009-10
Nate Cosby, 2008-9
Jennifer Tate, 2008-9
Lorelle Babwah, 2007-8
Jordan Todd, 2006-7
Cathleen Sparks, 2006-7
Amber Turner, 2006-7
Glenn Kern, 2004-2007
Tatiana Meteleva, 2004-5
Selena Beckman-Harned, 2005-6