Summary
Mark Vandam is a professor and researcher with a decade of experience at the intersection of psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and speech and hearing sciences, currently based in Spokane, Washington. He leads academic programs at Washington State University Spokane and serves as president of Quadralynx, bringing both institutional leadership and entrepreneurial perspective to applied language research. His work spans speech perception, spoken language production, hearing impairment, and child language development, informed by postdoctoral training in childhood deafness and a PhD in linguistics from Indiana University. Mark has maintained active adjunct roles across universities, reflecting a commitment to interdisciplinary teaching and community-engaged research. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex experimental findings into practical clinical insights for speech and hearing professionals. An early career grounded in English and German studies gives him a distinctive humanities-informed approach to empirical linguistics.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
GRCHS
PhD, Linguistics, PhD, Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington
postdoc, Speech Science, childhood deafness, postdoc, Speech Science, childhood deafness at Boys Town National Research Hospital
BA, English, German, BA, English, German at Calvin College
German, asl