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Zoe Ezzes

Language And Communicative Disorders, Doctor of Philosophy (Coll Health & Human Services)

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Speech-language pathologist and current PhD student at San Diego State University and UC San Diego's joint doctoral program in Language and Communicative Disorders. Previously worked as a research speech-language pathologist for UCSF's Memory and Aging Center and UT Austin's ARTLab conducting primary progressive aphasia research for 3.5 years.

  • Research Speech-Language Pathologist, 2021-2025
    University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, US

  • Master of Science, 2020
    Speech-Language Pathology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, US
  • Bachelor of Science, 2017
    Cognitive Science with specialization in neuroscience, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, US

  • PPA Task Force Member and Care Partner Support Group Facilitator, 2022-Present
    National Aphasia Association, New York, New York, US

Profile updated November 3, 2026.

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Scholarly Works

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Academic Publications34

Scholarly Works by Year

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2022Academic Publications1
2023Academic Publications1
2024Academic Publications14
2025Academic Publications15
2026Academic Publications3

Scholarship for Zoe Ezzes

Academic Publications

Artificial intelligence-based speech error detection to differentiate primary progressive aphasia variants
Jet M J Vonk; Jiachen Lian; G Lynn Kurteff; Cheol J Cho; Giada Antonicelli; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Brain Communications, 2026, journal article
Automated transcription in primary progressive aphasia: Accuracy and effects on classification
Natasha Clarke; Brittany Morin; Christophe Bedetti; Rian Bogley; Sophie Pellerin; Bérengère Houzé; Siddarth Ramkrishnan; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
2026, preprint
Differentiating non-fluent and logopenic primary progressive aphasia via automated acoustic speech analysis
Giada Antonicelli; Brittany T. Morin; Rian Bogley; Ryan Newbury; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Cortex, 2026, journal article
Towards Accurate Phonetic Error Detection Through Phoneme Similarity Modeling
Zhou, Xuanru; Lian, Jiachen; Cho, Cheol Jun; Prabhune, Tejas; Li, Shuhe; Li, William; Ortiz, Rodrigo; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Arxiv, 2025, journal article
Towards Accurate Phonetic Error Detection Through Phoneme Similarity Modeling
Zhou, Xuanru; Lian, Jiachen; Cho, Cheol Jun; Prabhune, Tejas; Li, Shuhe; Li, William; Ortiz, Rodrigo; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech, 2025, journal article

Network changes associated with right anterior temporal lobe atrophy: insight into unique symptoms
Ulugut, Hulya; Mandelli, Maria Luisa; Gilioli, Anna; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Brain Communications, 2025, journal article
Seamless Dysfluent Speech Text Alignment for Disordered Speech Analysis
Ye, Zongli; Lian, Jiachen; Zhou, Xuanru; Zhang, Jinming; Li, Haodong; Li, Shuhe; Guo, Chenxu; Das, Anaisha; Park, Peter; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Arxiv, 2025, journal article
Seamless Dysfluent Speech Text Alignment for Disordered Speech Analysis
Ye, Zongli; Lian, Jiachen; Zhou, Xuanru; Zhang, Jinming; Li, Haodong; Li, Shuhe; Gu, Chenxu; Das, Anaisha; Park, Peter; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech, 2025, journal article
Dysfluent WFST: A Framework for Zero-Shot Speech Dysfluency Transcription and Detection
Guo, Chenxu; Lian, Jiachen; Zhou, Xuanru; Zhang, Jinming; Li, Shuhe; Ye, Zongli; Park, Hwi Joo; Das, Anaisha; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Arxiv, 2025, journal article
Dysfluent WFST: A Framework for Zero-Shot Speech Dysfluency Transcription and Detection
Guo, Chenxu; Lian, Jiachen; Zhou, Xuanru; Zhang, Jinming; Li, Shuhe; Ye, Zongli; Park, Hwi Joo; Das, Anaisha; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech, 2025, journal article
LCS-CTC: Leveraging Soft Alignments to Enhance Phonetic Transcription Robustness
Ye, Zongli; Lian, Jiachen; Gupta, Akshaj; Zhou, Xuanru; Li, Haodong; Patel, Krish; Park, Hwi Joo; Zhou, Dingkun; Guo, Chenxu; Li, Shuhe; Wang, Sam; Zhou, Iris; Cho, Cheol Jun; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Arxiv, 2025, journal article
Automated Speech Analysis to Differentiate Frontal and Right Anterior Temporal Lobe Atrophy in Frontotemporal Dementia
Jet M.J. Vonk; Vonk, Jet M. J.; Brittany T. Morin; Morin, Brittany T.; Janhavi Pillai; Pillai, Janhavi; David Rosado Rolon; Rosado Rolon, David; Bogley, Rian; Rian Bogley; Baquirin, David Paul; David Paul Baquirin; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Neurology, 2025, journal article
Automatic Detection of Articulatory-Based Disfluencies in Primary Progressive Aphasia
Jiachen Lian; Lian, Jiachen; Xuanru Zhou; Zhou, Xuanru; Chenxu Guo; Guo, Chenxu; Ye, Zongli; Zongli Ye; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2025, journal article
Analysis and Evaluation of Synthetic Data Generation in Speech Dysfluency Detection
Zhang, Jinming; Zhou, Xuanru; Lian, Jiachen; Li, Shuhe; Li, William; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Arxiv, 2025, journal article
Analysis and Evaluation of Synthetic Data Generation in Speech Dysfluency Detection
Zhang, Jinming; Zhou, Xuanru; Lian, Jiachen; Li, Shuhe; Li, William; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech, 2025, journal article
Network changes associated with right anterior temporal lobe atrophy: insight into unique symptoms
Hulya Ulugut; Maria Luisa Mandelli; Anna Gilioli; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
2025, journal article
Agentic Generative Artificial Intelligence System for Classification of Pathology-Confirmed Primary Progressive Aphasia Variants
Chiara Gallingani; Gallingani, Chiara; Miller, Zachary A; Zachary A Miller; Mandelli, Maria Luisa; Maria Luisa Mandelli; Howard J Rosen; Rosen, Howard J; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Medrxiv, 2025, journal article
An Imitation-Based Treatment for Ataxic Dysarthria: A Retrospective Multiple Single-Case Study
Anna Gilioli; Gilioli, Anna; Nordio, Sara; Sara Nordio; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Biomedicines, 2025, journal article
YOLO-Stutter: End-to-end Region-Wise Speech Dysfluency Detection
Zhou, Xuanru; Kashyap, Anshul; Li, Steve; Sharma, Ayati; Morin, Brittany; Baquirin, David; Vonk, Jet; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Arxiv, 2024, journal article
YOLO-Stutter: End-to-end Region-Wise Speech Dysfluency Detection
Zhou, Xuanru; Kashyap, Anshul; Li, Steve; Sharma, Ayati; Morino, Brittany; Baquirin, David; Vonk, Jet; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech, 2024, journal article
SSDM: Scalable Speech Dysfluency Modeling
Lian, Jiachen; Zhou, Xuanru; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (Neurips Proceedings), 2024, journal article
STUTTER-SOLVER: END-TO-END MULTI-LINGUAL DYSFLUENCY DETECTION
Zhou, Xuanru; Cho, Cheol Jun; Sharma, Ayati; Morin, Brittany; Baquirin, David; Vonk, Jet; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (Slt), 2024, journal article
Stutter-Solver: End-to-end Multi-lingual Dysfluency Detection
Zhou, Xuanru; Cho, Cheol Jun; Sharma, Ayati; Morin, Brittany; Baquirin, David; Vonk, Jet; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Arxiv, 2024, journal article
Time and Tokens: Benchmarking End-to-End Speech Dysfluency Detection
Zhou, Xuanru; Lian, Jiachen; Cho, Cheol Jun; Liu, Jingwen; Ye, Zongli; Zhang, Jinming; Morin, Brittany; Baquirin, David; Vonk, Jet; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Arxiv, 2024, journal article
Perceptual and semantic deficits in face recognition in semantic dementia
Yadollahikhales, Golnaz; Mandelli, Maria Luisa; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Medrxiv, 2024, journal article
SSDM 2.0: Time-Accurate Speech Rich Transcription with Non-Fluencies
Lian, Jiachen; Zhou, Xuanru; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Arxiv, 2024, journal article
SSDM: Scalable Speech Dysfluency Modeling
Lian, Jiachen; Zhou, Xuanru; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Arxiv, 2024, journal article
Neural basis of speech and grammar symptoms in non-fluent variant primary progressive aphasia spectrum
Diego L Lorca-Puls; Lorca-Puls, Diego L.; Andrea Gajardo-Vidal; Gajardo-Vidal, Andrea; Mandelli, Maria Luisa; Maria Luisa Mandelli; Ignacio Illán-Gala; Illan-Gala, Ignacio; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Brain, 2024, journal article
Perceptual and semantic deficits in face recognition in semantic dementia
Golnaz Yadollahikhales; Yadollahikhales, Golnaz; Mandelli, Maria Luisa; Maria Luisa Mandelli; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Neuropsychologia, 2024, journal article
Clinical dimensions along the non-fluent variant primary progressive aphasia spectrum
Ignacio Illán-Gala; Illan-Gala, Ignacio; Diego L Lorca-Puls; Lorca-Puls, Diego L.; Boon Lead Tee; Tee, Boon Lead; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Brain, 2024, journal article
Assessing processing speed and its neural correlates in the three variants of primary progressive aphasia with a non-verbal tablet-based task
Andrea Gajardo-Vidal; Gajardo-Vidal, Andrea; Maxime Montembeault; Montembeault, Maxime; Diego L. Lorca-Puls; Lorca-Puls, Diego L.; Abigail E. Licata; Licata, Abigail E.; Bogley, Rian; Rian Bogley; Erlhoff, Sabrina; Sabrina Erlhoff; Buddhika Ratnasiri; Ratnasiri, Buddhika; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Cortex, 2024, journal article
Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Speech Markers: Insights from English, Chinese, and Italian Speakers
Gaia C. Santi; Eleonora Catricalà; Stephanie Kwan; Anson Wong; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
2024, preprint
Clinical dimensions along the progressive nonfluent variant primary progressive aphasia spectrum
Illan-Gala, I.; Lorca-Puls, D. L.; Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Medrxiv, 2023, journal article
An Open Dataset of Connected Speech in Aphasia with Consensus Ratings of Auditory-Perceptual Features
Zoe Ezzes; et al.
Data, 2022, journal article