Eugene H. Buder

Eugene H. Buder is an Associate Professor at the University of Memphis’s School of Communication Sciences and Disorders since 1996. He directs the Social Interaction Laboratory and supports the Infant Vocalization Laboratory. His research focuses on speech acoustics, infant vocal development, and conversational interaction. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with postdoctoral work at the University of Washington.

Education

• A.B. Special Concentration, Harvard College, 1980
• M.Ed. Education and Anthropology, University of Alberta, 1985
• Ph.D. Communication Arts and Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991

Research Interests

Buder’s work spans acoustic phonetics, infant vocal development, and conversational prosody. He collaborates on projects like mobile sensing for respiratory behavior analysis (with Prof. Santosh Kumar) and phonological development in bilingual children. His recent studies include infant protophones classification and sarcasm detection in vocal tone.

Labs/Teams

• Director: Social Interaction Lab
• Coordinator: Phonetics Lab
• Collaborator: Speech Science Lab, Infant Vocalization Lab, Bilingualism Lab

Grants & Projects

Not explicitly listed, but active in cross-disciplinary projects involving computational linguistics and biomedical engineering.