Nina Semushina

Nina Semushina has completed her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2021, and her advisor was Rachel Mayberry. At UCSD, Nina worked in Mayberry Lab for Multimodal Language Development, where she studied sign languages, language evolution, the relationship between language and number, and the impact of delayed language exposure on the adult's language abilities.

Currently, she is a postdoctoral scholar at the Psychology Department of University of Chicago, Goldin-Meadow Laboratory, where she studies how gesture help adults (hearing and deaf) and children learn mathematical concepts.