Masayuki Gibson worked part-time as a Research Assistant at NovaSpeech for three years before joining the team in February 2011 as a full-time Research Associate. He graduated magna cum laude from Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Linguistics and Music and has a Masters in Linguistics from Cornell University. He is completing a doctoral dissertation at Cornell on the interaction of lexical tone and sentential intonation in tone languages and expects to receive his Ph.D. in the fall. More information on Masa's research can be found on his Cornell web page.

At NovaSpeech, Masa assists with many aspects of the research related to our current hybrid synthesis project, especially knowledge-based synthesis rule development. He also works on the development of our speech corpora, creates stimuli for perceptual experiments, assists with technical papers and documentation, and researches phonetic and phonological topics related to our synthesis work.