Boey Kwan

Discourse Research Assistant at Corpus Pragmatics & Prosody Lab, SFU

Developed research questions, drafted abstracts, and contributed to manuscript analyzing prosody in conversation. Co-authored a Speech Prosody paper submission and assisted with journal manuscript revisions and data validation.

Child Speech Research Assistant at Hul’q’umi’num’ Pronunciation Lab, SFU

Engineering scalable Python pipelines for speech corpora, automating segmentation, feature extraction, outlier detection, and visualization for multi-speaker/multi-session datasets. Co-authored abstracts, presentations, and manuscripts with Dr. Henny Yeung (SFU) and Dr. Sonya Bird (UVic). Designed and validated annotation protocols and statistical analysis workflows to capture cross-speaker patterns.

Adaptive AI Research Assistant at Language and Brain Lab, SFU

Conducted HCI experiments on human adaptation to AI voices, including data collection and pre-processing. Maintained experimental hardware and ensured consistency signal quality across sessions.

Human-Robot Interaction Research Assistant at Breaking Barriers Initiative, SFU

Reviewed literature and defined methods for evaluating prosody and boundary cues in AI-generated speech. Designed stimuli and trial structures to build benchmark inputs and assess model consistency and cue reliability. Coordinated multi-lab workflows and produced experiment specifications for TTS evaluation and human-robot studies.