Professor Elena E. Lyakso is the head of the Child Speech Research Group at the Department of Higher Nervous Activity and Psychophysiology, Biological Faculty, St. Petersburg State University (Russia). She received Ph.D. in neuroscience and Dr. Sc. degrees in Speech Psychophysiology from St. Petersburg State University. E. Lyakso has published 4 books, 4 textbooks and more than 300 scientific papers on physiological and neurological factors influenced on language acquisition, emotional sphere of children, biological and physiological basis of child speech development in ontogenesis and dysontogenesis.
She is the author of original lecture courses and practices for bachelor and master students and doctoral student of Biology, Psychology and Philology faculties at St. Petersburg State University and for students of the master program on Speech Information Systems at ITMO University, supervises more than 30 bachelor, master, doctoral students, and post-docs. E. Lyakso is a member of European Psychology Society, St. Petersburg society of naturalists, Acoustical Society, Physiological society, the head of the Section on Speech Physiology at Russian Physiological Society. Prof. Lyakso was the supervisor of international projects with Turku University (Finland), Helsinki University (Finland), van Amsterdam University (Netherlands) and projects supported by Russian Government, Russian Science Foundation, and Russian Foundation for Basic Research. Her current research projects supported by the Russian Science Foundation and international projects with the Vellore Institute of Technology (India) are aimed to develop a cross-cultural approach for the diagnosis and future correction of emotional disorders in children, taking into account the age, cultural and linguistic affiliation of children and the severity of psychoneurological and developmental disorders and recognition of the emotional states of children in voice, speech, facial expressions using artificial intelligence methods.