Megan Jill Russell | |
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| Alma mater | University of Cape Town University of the Witwatersrand |
| Known for | artificial larynx |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical Engineering Biomedical Engineering |
| Institutions | University of the Witwatersrand University of Johannesburg |
| Thesis | Towards speech recognition using palato-lingual contact patterns for voice restoration (2011) |
| Doctoral advisors | David Rubin Tshilidzi Marwala Brian Wigdorowitz |
Megan Jill Russell is a Biomedical and Electrical engineer based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is popularly known for inventing an artificial larynx which was featured by MIT Technology Review, but perhaps more importantly, she is involved in the development of methods of Computer-assisted detection of Tuberculosis.