Language

People primarily focused on studying speech and language.

Huen Nicole Ling

Huen Nicole Ling, BA

Clinical Research Coordinator

Nicole grew up in Hong Kong and graduated in May of 2024 from the University of California, Berkeley, with dual BA degrees in Psychology and Cognitive Science. She conducted her Honors Thesis, researched with the Family and Culture Lab, and worked as a writing tutor. She is currently a Clinical Research Coordinator at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, focusing primarily on the Asian Cohort for Alzheimer’s Disease (ACAD).

Eugenie Mamuyac

Eugenie Mamuyac

Research Coordinator

Eugenie Mamuyac joined the UCSF Dyslexia Center's Multitudes project in September 2021. Now, she primarily works with Dr. Jessica de Leon as a research coordinator and administers the CATS (Cognitive Assessments for Tagalog Speakers) battery.

Prior to UCSF, Eugenie received her master's degree in Asia Pacific Studies at the University of San Francisco. Her research interests include bilingualism and acculturation.

Christy Boesch

Christine Boesch

Neuropsychology Intern

Christy Boesch is a 3rd year PsyD student at the Wright Institute in Berkeley. She received her BS degree in 2017 from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo in Child Development with a Psychology and Studio Art minor. In 2019 she graduated with her MS degree in Infancy and Early Childhood Development from University College London. Christy conducted research with the Anna Freud Centre in London, UK, which evaluated how parental mental health correlated with children's cognitive development.

Maya Bardorf

Maya Bardorf, BA

Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator

Maya graduated from Middlebury College in 2024 with a BA degree in neuroscience and a minor in art history. During her time at Middlebury, she contributed to a research project investigating gender and sex differences in visuospatial abilities among children using the Judgment of Line and Position Task (JLAP). Maya also spent a summer as a research assistant in the Hammack Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Vermont, where she studied the neurobiological underpinning of anxiety-like and depression-like behaviors.

Kassey Chang

Kassey Chang, BA

Clinical Research Coordinator

Kassey graduated with a BA degree from Columbia University, studying linguistics and computer science. She previously worked on visual mental imagery at Columbia's The Living Lab and early trilingual development at City University of Hong Kong. Now at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, she works in the Tee Lab on the Frontotemporal Dementia: Genes, Images and Emotions study.

Diana Rodriguez, BS

Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator

Siddarth Ramkrishnan, BA

Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator

Mia Lin, BA

Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator

Mia received her BA degree in Psychology from Rice University. She joined the MAC as an Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator on the Language/PPA Team. Previously, she worked as a Research Assistant at the T-SCAN Lab. She is passionate about utilizing research to develop targeted interventions for underserved and underrepresented populations. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, bullet journaling, and trying new restaurants.

Rochelle Reyes, BS, MPH

Staff Research Associate

Rochelle-Jan (RJ) Reyes (they/she) is a staff research associate in the de Leon Lab at UCSF. With Dr. de Leon and members of the lab, they support the Bilingualism Study that aims to investigate bilingualism’s effect on healthy aging and neurodegenerative disease. RJ is also a PROPEL scholar at UCSF.

Anna Yao, BS

Clinical Research Coordinator

Anna is a Clinical Research Coordinator in the Tee Lab.

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