Invited Presenters

Invited Keynote Presenters (Video in International Sign)

Invited Keynote Presenters

Matthew Dye (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)

Dr. Matt Dye holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Southampton (UK), and is a professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He also serves as the interim director of RIT’s new joint Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science, and is director of the NTID Sensory, Perceptual, and Cognitive Ecology (SPACE) Center. Until recently, Matt was also associate dean for research at NTID. His research focuses on visual and multi-sensory processing when auditory input is missing, asking whether deaf individuals’ visual attention is better and how vision and language interact.

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Barbara Hager (Universität Wien, Österreich/University of Vienna, Austria)

Barbara Hager is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Education at the University of Vienna, Austria, and project member at the Department for Teacher Education at the University of Vienna, Austria. She holds a Mag.a in Psychology from the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research mainly focuses on Deaf pedagogy.

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Vadim Kimmelman (University of Bergen, Norway)

Prof. Vadim Kimmelman holds a PhD in linguistics. He is currently a professor of general linguistics at the University of Bergen (UiB), Norway. He is the PI of an ERC funded project looking at the fundamentals of formal properties of nonmanuals (NONMANUAL). His research mainly focuses on the grammar of sign languages using corpus-based and quantitative methods.