Reed Blaylock
Postdoctoral Fellow at Chapman University
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolReed Blaylock is a linguist and postdoctoral fellow who applies computational and experimental methods to bridge vocal arts—especially beatboxing—and formal theories of speech. With 11 years of research experience and a PhD from USC, he has built annotation pipelines, GUIs for real-time MRI analysis, and automated workflows that turn audio–video transcriptions into quantitative insights. Reed’s work challenges assumptions about what counts as language by collaborating directly with beatboxers to produce faithful, community-grounded descriptions. An award-winning teacher and mentor, he designs inclusive courses and grading systems and has guided students to co-authored publications. Based in Los Angeles, he brings an uncommon blend of music practice, engineering tools (MIR, Praat, MATLAB), and justice-focused pedagogy to linguistics research.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics at University of Michigan
LatinGithub contributions (5)
reedblaylock/VocalTract-ROI-Toolbox
Jul 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 149 commits, 102 pushes in 4 years 8 months
reedblaylock/MATLAB-Redux
Jan 2019 - Jun 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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