Abeer Alwan homepage email position Professor, Electrical Engineering Director of Speech Processing and Auditory Perception Laboratory research interest Modeling human speech production and perception mechanisms and applying these models to speech-processing applications such as automatic recognition, compression, and synthesis. Yijian Bai   email position PhD student, Computer Science research interest Data stream query and management, Data stream mining Alison Bailey homepage email position Professor, Education research interest Development of narrative and theory of mind skills in children with autism, development of ethnic identity, metacognitive skills and bilingualism/biliteracy, parent facilitation of narrative development. Eva Baker homepage email position Director of Center for the Study of Evaluation Co-Director of National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing research interest Assessment and accountability models, the design and validation of technology-based learning and assessment systems, and new models to measure complex human performance in large-scale assessments. Christy Boscardin   email position Senior Researcher at CRESST research interest Applications of latent variable modeling, multilevel models, assessment of early literacy skills, and validity issues in large-scale testing. Lawrence Casey   email position Senior Coordinator at CRESST research interest Educational application of technology. Margaret Heritage   email position Assisstant Director at CRESST research interest Formative assessment and data use for school improvement. Markus Iseli homepage email position PhD student, Speech and Auditory Perception research interest The speech source signal, voice quality. Barbara Jones   email position Researcher at CRESST research interest Intructional and assessment practices in English language arts for English language learners, with a focus on academic language. Richard R. Muntz homepage email position Professor, Computer Science research interest Multimedia storage servers and database systems, scientific DBMS and data mining, distributed object management, computer system performance modeling. Kimberly Reynolds   email position PhD student, Education research interest Children's oral language and literacy development, home literacy environment of atypical family clusters, and narrative development.   Shizhen Wang   email position PhD student, Electrical Engineering research interest Robust speech recognition and speaker adaptation.   Hong You   email position PhD student, Electrical Engineering research interest Speech processing and recognition, machine learning, signal processing Carlo Zaniolo homepage email position Professor, Computer Science research interest Extensible Databases and O-R Systems, XML Information Systems, Temporal and Spatial Databases, Deductive Databases and Knowledge Bases, NonMonotonic reasoning.