Rate My Professor Zed Sehyr

Sehyr’s professional trajectory includes Lecturer at San Diego State University’s Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences and Linguistics departments (2022–2023), Research Scientist (2015–2022) and Postdoctoral Researcher (2013–2015) at San Diego State University’s Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience, and Research and Teaching Assistant at University College London’s Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre (2009–2013). Awards include the Sign Language Linguistics Society Early Career Researcher Award (2016), National Science Foundation and Popular Science 15th Anniversary Vizzies People’s Choice Award for ASL-LEX (2017), and 2nd place Best Student Paper Award from the International Society for Gesture Studies (2010). As Principal Investigator, she received a National Science Foundation grant (2023–2026, $299,247) for collaborative research quantifying sign reduction in American Sign Language using human pose estimation. Key publications encompass “The ASL-LEX 2.0 Project: A Database of Lexical and Phonological Properties for 2,723 Signs in American Sign Language” (Journal of Deaf Studies & Deaf Education, 2021), “Orthographic ERP priming effects between English print and American Sign Language fingerspelling fonts” (Neurobiology of Language, 2023), “Contribution of lexical quality and sign language skill to reading comprehension” (Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2022), and “Improving Sign Recognition with Phonology” (Proceedings of the EACL, 2023).