Steven Guo

Jianfeng (Steven) Guo is a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures. He used his conference travel grant to go to the Speech Prosody 2026 conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and present his project titled “Falling in Two Dimensions: Pitch and Temporal Properties in Feixiang Chinese Falling Tone Contrast.”

CEAPS travel grants are made possible by the generous donations we receive every year during the LAS Day of Giving! Travel grants help students boost their academic portfolio and make them a more well-rounded student. "It strengthen{ed} my resume and helps me find a job in academia," says Steven Guo.