Dr. Rachel Ostrand visited the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign during December 8th and 9th. Dr. Ostrand is a Staff Research Scientist at IBM Research as well as an Investigator on CREATE Project 2. While at Illinois she presented her research investigating properties of language production that correlate with cognitive status. In addition, she described an automated pipeline that she has built for computing these properties from speech transcripts, primarily focusing on lexical and contextual features of language. The Illinois CREATE research team also met with Dr. Ostrand to communicate updates and ideas for Project 2, and hosted two dinner meetings. If you would like to learn more about Dr. Ostrand’s work, please visit her website.