Ferenc Bunta has been a faculty member at the University of Houston since 2008. His research focuses on bilingual and cross-linguistic phonological acquisition in both typical children and their peers with communication disorders (such as children with hearing loss who use cochlear implants). His work has been funded by the NIH/NIDCD, Department of Education, and the Spencer Foundation. He is also the founding director of the PhD Program in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Houston. He has taught courses on speech and language development, writing in communication sciences and disorders, phonetics, phonology, bilingual language development, and speech science.