Nina Semushina

Nina Semushina is currently an Associate Director of the Research Labs in the Roman Family Center for Decision Research at the University of Chicago

They completed their Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2021, and their advisor was Rachel Mayberry. At UCSD, Nina worked in the Mayberry Lab for Multimodal Language Development, where they studied sign languages, language evolution, the relationship between language and number, and the impact of delayed language exposure on adults' language abilities.

They also completed a postdoctoral scholar position in the Psychology Department at the University of Chicago, in the Goldin-Meadow Laboratory, where they studied how gestures help adults (hearing and deaf), and children learn mathematical concepts.