Research Interests (Back to index)

Auditory Neuroscience; Auditory nerve and cochlear nucleus physiology, particularly the dorsal cochlear nucleus; Correlation of physiological response properties with anatomical properties of neurons; Encoding of complex signals and transformations of these encoded signals by the neuronal circuitry of the cochlear nucleus; Multiunit recording and analysis; Mathematical modeling of the neuronal circuitry of the cochlear nucleus; Brainstem auditory evoked responses.

Employment

University	Title	Department	Years
Boston University	Chairman	Biomedical Engineering	1992-95
Hebrew University	Visiting Associate Professor	Physiology	Jun/Jul 1993
Boston University	Associate Research Professor	Otolaryngology	1990-
Boston University	Associate Professor	Biomedical Engineering	1989-
Boston University	Director of Graduate Studies	Biomedical Engineering	1982-92
Boston University	Assistant Professor	Biomedical Engineering	1981-89
Boston University	Assistant Research Professor	Otolaryngology	1981-90
Johns Hopkins University	Teaching Assistant	Biomedical Engineering	1978-80

Education

University	Advisor	Department/Lab	Degree	Dates
Johns Hopkins University	MB Sachs/ED Young	Neural Encoding Lab		1979-80
Johns Hopkins University	ED Young	Biomedical Engineering	Ph.D.	1974-79
The City College of CUNY		Electrical Engineering	B.E.	1972-74
Queens College of CUNY		Pre Engineering		1970-72

Honors

Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, 1998; Elected to Board of Directors, Biomedical Engineering Society, 1995-98; CCNY Alumni Career Achievement Award, 1994; Lady Davis Fellow, 1993; NSF Fellowship Panel for Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, 1985-87; Listed in 1st edition of Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology, 1984-5; Listed in American Men and Women of Science 1988,90; Listed in Who's Who in Society, 1986-88; Listed in Who's Who in the East, 1991; NIH New Investigator Research Award, 1982-5; NIH Postdoctoral Traineeship, 1980; Johns Hopkins University Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1979-80; Hicks Scholarship, 1975; JHU Predoctoral Fellowship, 1974-5; Graduation with honors CCNY, 1974; Steinman Scholarship CCNY, 1973; Elected to tau beta pi, 1973.

Ph.D. Dissertation (Back to index)

___Evidence for inhibitory interactions between neurons in the dorsal cochlear nucleus of the unanesthetized, decerebrate cat: a cross-correlation study of neural pairs recorded simultaneously using single microelectrodes.

Publications (names underlined are of students who studied with Dr. Voigt)

Articles in peer reviewed journals

1. Voigt,HF Young,ED Evidence of Inhibitory Interactions between Neurons in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Journal of Neurophysiology 44 76-96 (1980).

2. Young,ED Voigt,HF Response Properties of Type II and Type III Units in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Hearing Research 6 153-169 (1982).

3. Voigt,HF Sachs,MB Young,ED Representation of Whispered Vowels in Discharge Patterns of Auditory Nerve Fibers Hearing Research 8 49-58 (1982).

4. Sachs,MB Voigt,HF Young,ED Effects of Masking Noise on Vowel Spectra Representation in the Auditory Nerve Journal of Neurophysiology 50 27-45 (1983).

5. Voigt,HF Young,ED Stimulus Dependent Neural Correlations: An Examplefrom the Cochlear Nucleus Experimental Brain Research 60 594-598 (1985).

6. Gdowski,GT Eldred,WD Voigt,HF A Simple Device for the Computer Quantification of Depth Measurements in Thick Light Microscopic Sections Journal of Neuroscience Methods 20 249-260 (1987).

7. Voigt,HF Young,ED Neural Correlations in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus: Pairs of Units with Similar Response Properties Journal of Neurophysiology 59 1014-1032 (1988).

8. Burkard,R Voigt,HF Stimulus Dependencies of the Gerbil Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response (BAER). I. Effects of Click Level, Rate and
Polarity Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 85 2514-2525 (1989).

9. Burkard,R Voigt,HF Stimulus Dependencies of the Gerbil Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response (BAER). II. Effects of Broadband Noise Level and High-pass Masker Cutoff Frequency Across Click Polarity Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 85 2526-2536 (1989).

10. Burkard,R Feldman,M Voigt,HF The Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response in the Rat. Normative Studies, With Observations Concerning the Effects of Ossicular Disruption Audiology 29 146-162 (1990).

11. Burkard,R Voigt,HF Stimulus Dependencies of the Gerbil Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response (BAER) III. Additivity of Click Level and Rate with Noise Level Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 88 2222-2234 (1990).

12. Voigt,HF Young,ED Cross-correlation Analysis of Inhibitory Interactions in Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Journal of Neurophysiology 64 1590-1610 (1990).

13. Ravicz,ME Rosowski,JJ Voigt,HF Sound-Power Collection by the Auditory Periphery of the Mongolian Gerbil Meriones unguiculatus: I. Middle-Ear Input Impedance Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 92 157-177 (1992).

14. Young,ED Spirou,GA Rice,JJ Voigt,HF Neural Organization and Responses to Complex Stimuli in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 336 407-413 (1992).

15. Burkard,RF Voigt,HF Smith,RL A Comparison of Whole Nerve Action Potential and Wave i of the Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potential in the
Mongolian Gerbil Meriones unguiculatus Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 93 2069-2076 (1993).

16. Burkard,RF Boettcher, F Voigt, HF Mills, J Comments on "Stimulus Dependencies of the Gerbil Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response. I. Effects of Click Level, Rate and Polarity" Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 94 2441-2442 (1993).

17. Davis,KA Voigt,HF Neural Modeling of the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus: Cross-Correlation Analysis of Short-duration Tone-burst Responses Biological Cybernetics 71 511-521 (1994).

18. Benson,TE Voigt, HF Neuron Labeling by Extracellular Delivery of Horseradish Peroxidase in vivo: A Method for the Study of the Local
Circuitry of Projection and Interneurons at Physiologically Characterized Sites Journal of Neuroscience Methods 57 81-91 (1995).

19. Davis,KA Gdowski,GT Voigt,HF A Statistically-based Method to Generate Response Maps Objectively Journal of Neuroscience Methods 57 107-118 (1995).

20. Lisiecki,RS Voigt,HF A Two Channel Action Potential Generator System for Use in Testing Neurophysiological Data Acquisition/analysis Systems Journal of Neuroscience Methods 60 115-123 (1995).

21. Davis,KA Ding,J Benson,TE Voigt,HF Response Properties of Units in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus of Unanesthetized, Decerebrate Gerbil Journal of Neurophysiology 75 1411-1431 (1996).

22. Ravicz,ME Rosowski,JJ Voigt,HF Sound-Power Collection by the Auditory Periphery of the Mongolian Gerbil Meriones unguiculatus: II. External-Ear Radiation Impedance Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 99 3044-3063 (1996).

23. Davis,KA Voigt,HF Computer Simulation of Shared Input Among Projection Neurons in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Biological Cybernetics 74 413-425 (1996).

24. McGinn,MD Schwartz,IR Chamberlain,SC Voigt,HF Regarding Boettcher et al. (Hearing Research, 87 (1995) 208-219) Hearing Research 99 190-191 (1996).

25. Gdowski,GT Voigt,HF Response Map Properties of Units in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus of Barbiturate Anesthetized Gerbil Meriones unguiculatus Hearing Research 105 85-104 (1997).

26. Ding,J Voigt,HF Intracellular Response Properties of Neurons in Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus of Unanesthetized Decerebrate Gerbils Journal of Neurophysiology 77 2549-2572 (1997).

27. Hancock,KE Davis,KA Voigt,HF Modeling Inhibition of Type II units in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus BiologicalCybernetics 76 419-428 (1997).

28. Davis,KA Voigt,HF Evidence of Stimulus-Dependent Correlated Activity in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus of Decerebrate Gerbils Journal of Neurophysiology 78 229-247 (1997).

29. Gdowski,GT Voigt,HF Intrinsic Oscillations and Discharge Regularity of Units in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN) of Barbiturate
Anesthetized Gerbils Annals of Biomedical Engineering 26 473-487 (1998).

Book Chapters and Conference Proceedings

1. Young,ED Voigt,HF The Internal Organization of the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus In: Neuronal Mechanisms of Hearing Syka,J Aitkin,L (Editors)
Plenum 127-133 (1981).

2. Voigt,HF Sachs,MB Young,ED Effects of Masking Noise on the Representation of Vowel Spectra in the Auditory Nerve In: Neuronal
Mechanisms of Hearing Syka,J Aitkin,L (Editors) Plenum 113-118 (1981).

3. Gdowski,GT Voigt,HF Eldred,WD An Optical Encoder Interface for Computer Quantification of Depth Measurements Proceedings
of the 13th Northeast Bioengineering Conference 13 574-577 (1987).

4. Young,ED Shofner,WP White,JA Robert,J Voigt,HF Response Properties of Cochlear Nucleus Neurons in Relationship to Physiological Mechanisms In: Auditory Functions: Neurobiological Basis of Hearing Edelman,GM Gall,WE Cowan,WM (Editors) New York: John Wiley and Sons,
pp 277-312 (1988) Invited Paper.

5. Gdowski,GT Voigt,HF A Programmable Timing Device for Neurophysiological Studies of the Auditory System Proceedings of the 15th Northeast Bioengineering Conference 15 193-194 (1989).

6. Davis,KA Voigt,HF Neural Modeling of the DCN: Cross-correlation Analysis Using Short-duration Tone-burst Stimuli Proceedings of the 17th Northeast Bioengineering Conference 17 211-212 (1991).

7. Lutchen,KR Eisenberg,SR Voigt,HF A Capstone Senior Project as Partof an Integrated Design Experience for BME Undergraduates Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education 498-501 (1994) Invited Paper.

8. Lutchen,KR Voigt,HF A Capstone Senior Project Program Combining Training in Design and Research with Technical Communication for Biomedical Engineering Undergraduates BME Undergraduate Design Resource Guide http//www.ee.cau.edu/\~ bme\_des/des\_home.htm 4 pp (1995)
Invited Paper.

9. Voigt,HF Biomedical Engineering as an Attractive Entry Point for Women into an Engineering Discipline. In: Women and Science: Views of the
Conference Participants National Science Foundation Conference (1995) Invited Paper.

10. Voigt,HF Davis,KA Computer Simulations of Neural Correlations in the Dorsal Coch-lear Nucleus. In: Advances in Speech, Hearing, and Language Processing, Vol. 3: Cochlear Nucleus: Structure and Function in Relation to Modeling Ainsworth,WA (Editor) London: JAI Press LTD 351-375 (1996).

11. Voigt,HF Hancock,KE Ding,J Fan,H The Acoustic Response Properties of Identified Pyramidal and Cartwheel Cells of the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus. In: Psychophysical and Physiological Advances in Hearing Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Hearing Grantham UK
A.R. Palmer, A. Rees, A.Q. Summerfield and R. Meddis (Editors),Whurr Publishers, London 185-191 (1997) Invited paper.

Articles that appeared in the Milton Times under the column: Scientifically Speaking...

1. Leonardo da Vinci -- Scientist, Inventor, Artist July 1997.

2. The Nazi Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg August 1997.

3. Lessons for Earth from Pathfinder's Mission to Mars December 1997.

Published Recipes

1. Herb's Excellent Chilli and Beans In: The Glover School Recipe Book 1996.

Museum Exhibits

1. Escape from the Nazis: The Transatlantic Friendship of Two Neuroscientists - Alexander Forbes and Ernst von Brucke At The Forbes House Museum in Milton MA; March 1, 1998 -May 31, 1998.

Submitted and In Preparation (Back to index)

1. Ding,J Voigt,HF Response Properties of Identified Neurons in Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus of Unanesthetized Decerebrate Gerbils Journal of Neurophysiology In Preparation (1997).

2. Hancock,KE Voigt,HF Wideband Inhibition of Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Type IV units in cat: A Computational Model Biological Cybernetics In Revision (1997).

3. Fan,H Gdowski,GT Voigt,HF Temporal Evolution of Intrinsic Oscillations of units in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN) of Barbiturate Anesthetized Gerbils Annals of Biomedical Engineering In Preparation (1997).

4. Davis,KA Voigt,HF Evidence of Spontaneously Active Inhibitory Interneurons in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus of Unanesthetized Decerebrate Gerbil In Preparation (1997).

5. Gdowski,GT Voigt,HF A PSTH Classification Scheme for Units Recorded in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus of Barbiturate Anesthetized Gerbil Meriones unguiculatus In Preparation (1997).

6. Gdowski,GT Voigt,HF Neural Correlations in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus of Barbiturate Anesthetized Gerbils In Preparation (1997)

7. Fan,H Voigt,HF Effects of Brevital on the Responses Properties of Type IV Units in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus of Unanesthetized Decerebrate Gerbil In Preparation (1997).

8. Fan,H Voigt,HF Effects of Brevital on the Responses Properties of Type III Units in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus of Unanesthetized Decerebrate Gerbil In Preparation (1997).

Abstracts (Back to index)

1. Voigt,HF Young,ED Interactions Between Two Types of Neurons in the DCN Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 64 S137 (1978).

2. Voigt,HF Young,ED Evidence of Inhibitory Interactions Between Neurons in Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 5 31 (1979).

3. Voigt,HF Sachs,MB Young,ED Effects of Masking Noise on Auditory-nerve Coding of Vowels Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 67 S76 (1980).

4. Young,ED Voigt,HF The Internal Organization of the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Satellite Symposium to the 28th International Congress of Physiological Sciences: Neuronal Mechanisms of Hearing Prague Czechoslovakia (1980).

5. Voigt,HF Sachs,MB Young,ED Effects of Masking Noise on the Representation of Vowel Spectra in the Auditory Nerve Satellite Symposium to the 28th International Congress of Physiological Sciences: Neuronal Mechanisms of Hearing Prague Czechoslovakia (1980).

6. Young,ED Voigt,HF Response Properties of Type II and Type III Units in the Dorsal Cochlear Nuclues Association for Research in Otolaryngology
Abstracts 4 (1981).

7. Young,ED Sachs,MB Voigt,HF Wider Dynamic Range During Stimulus Onset Transient: Effects on the Representation of Steady-state Vowels in Cat Auditory Nerve Discharge Rate Profiles Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts 4 (1981).

8. Voigt,HF Sachs,MB Young,ED Representation of Whispered Vowels in Temporal Patterns of Auditory-nerve Fiber Discharges Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 69 S53 (1981).

9. Hubbard,AE Voigt,HF Mountain,DC Injection of Direct Current Into Scala Media Alters Auditory Nerve Response Properties Association for
Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts 6 (1983).

10. Voigt,HF Acoustic Response Properties of Units in Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus of Unanesthetized, Decerebrate Gerbil Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 74 S7 (1983).

11. Voigt,HF McMullen,TA Simulation of Neuronal Circuitry of the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts 7:67 (1984).

12. Voigt,HF Young,ED Stimulus Dependent Neural Correlations Between Type IV Units in Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Society for Neuroscience
Abstracts 10 843 (1984).

13. McMullen,TA Voigt,HF Neuronal Circuitry of Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus: A Computer Model Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 10 842 (1984).

14. Voigt,HF Young,ED Stimulus Dependent Neural Correlations Between Type II and Type IV Units in Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Society for
Neuroscience Abstracts 11 1049 (1985).

15. Voigt,HF Young,ED Stimulus Dependent Neural Correlations in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus ACEMB 39 323 Invited paper (1986).

16. Voigt,HF McMullen,TA Intracellular Measurements of Time Constants in Acoustically Responsive Neurons in Gerbil Cochlear Nucleus Society
for Neuroscience Abstracts 12 1268 (1986).

17. Voigt,HF Hubbard,AE Direct Current Delivered into Scala Media Causes CF-dependent Changes in Auditory Nerve Tuning Curves Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts 10 36 (1987).

18. Gdowski,GT Voigt,HF Eldred,WD An Optical Encoder Interface for Computer Quantification of Depth Measurements Thirteenth Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (1987).

19. McMullen,TA Voigt,HF Computer Simulation of Neural Interactions in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus: Type II-Type IV Cross-correlograms
Satellite Symposium to the Second World Congress of Neuroscience: Auditory Pathways- Structure and Function Prague Czechoslovakia (1987).

20. Voigt,HF McMullen,TA Computer Simulations of Neural Correlations in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus: Type IV Pairs Satellite Symposium to the Second World Congress of Neuroscience: Auditory Pathways- Structure and Function Prague Czechoslovakia (1987).

21. Voigt,HF Burkard,R Stimulus Dependencies of the Gerbil Brainstem Auditory System (BAER) Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 14 801 (1988).

22. Burkard,R Voigt,HF The Effects of Broadband Noise on the Click-evoked Gerbil (BAER) Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts 12 (1989).

23. Voigt,HF Burkard,R The Effects of High-pass Noise-masker Cutoff Frequency on the Gerbil Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response (BAER)
Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts 12 (1989).

24. Gdowski,GT Voigt,HF A Programmable Timing Device for Neurophysiological Studies of the Auditory System Fifteenth Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference 15 (1989).

25. Gennosa,TJ Voigt,HF Burkard,R Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emissions in Rana catesbiana, the American Bullfrog Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 85 S35 (1989).

26. Burkard,R Voigt,HF The Effects of Click and Noise Level on the Gerbil Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response (BAER) Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts 13 (1990).

27. Ravicz,ME Rosowski,JJ Voigt,HF Acoustic Impedance Measurements in the Gerbil Ear Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 87 S101 (1990).

28. Burkard,R Voigt,HF Nonadditivity of Click Rate and Noise Level on Gerbil BAER ASHA Accepted (1990).

29. Young,ED Spirou,GA Voigt,HF Rice,JJ Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus: Internal Organization of Inhibitory Connections and Responses to Complex Stimuli Symposium on Cochlear Nucleus at the University of Keele Keele United Kingdom (1990).

30. Voigt,HF Davis,KA Computer Simulations of Neural Correlations in Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Symposium on Cochlear Nucleus at the University of Keele Keele United Kingdom (1990).

31. Gdowski,GT Kreitner,K Benson,TE Voigt,HF Response Map Measurements of Units in the Anesthetized Gerbil Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN). Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 16 873 (1990).

32. Maghirang,JC Wallace,R Xue,S Benson,TE Voigt,HF Regularity Analysis of Units in the Anesthetized Gerbil Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN). Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 16 873 (1990).

33. Smith,RL Burkard,RF Voigt,HF Licamelil,J BAER and AP Thresholds in Gerbils Raised in Sound-Isolated and Non-Sound-Isolated Environments Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts 14 25 (1991).

34. Benson,TE Johnson,RJ Voigt,HF Localization of Ca-ATPase and Calcium-Binding Protein, CBP-58, in the Gerbil Cochlear Nucleus Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts 14 139 (1991).

35. Davis,KA Voigt,HF Neural Modeling of the DCN: PST and
Cross-Correlation Analysis using Short-Duration Tone-Burst Stimuli
Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts
14 51 (1991).

36. Davis,KA Voigt,HF Neural Modeling of the DCN: Cross-correlation Analysis Using Short-duration Tone-burst Stimuli Proceedings of the 17th Northeast Bioengineering Conference 17 211-212 (1991).

37. Benson,TE Gdowski,GT Voigt,HF Neuron Types in Gerbil Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 17 448 (1991).

38. Rice,JJ Spirou,GA Voigt,HF Young,ED Neural Organization and Responses to Complex Stimuli in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Symposium on Complex Signal Processing by the Auditory System at the Royal Society London United Kingdom (1991).

39. Voigt,HF Burkard,RF Smith,RL A Comparison of WNAP and Wave I of the BAER in Mongolian Gerbil Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts15 293 (1992).

40. Maghirang,JC Voigt,HF Regularity Analysis in the Anesthetized Gerbil Meriones unguiculatus Dorsal Cochlear NucleusAssociation for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts 15 181 (1992).

41. Benson,TE Voigt,HF Synaptic Circuitry of Vertical Cells in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN) of Gerbil Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts 16 123 (1993).

42. Voigt,HF Burkard,R Forward Masking and the Gerbil Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts 16 61 (1993).

43. Davis,KA Voigt,HF Response Map Measurements of Units in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN) of Unanesthetized, Decerebrate Gerbil. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 19 532 (1993).

44. Gdowski,GT Voigt,HF Functional Interactions Between Neurons in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN) of Barbiturate-Anesthetized Gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus). Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 19 533 (1993).

45. Davis,KA Voigt,HF Functional Interactions Between Neurons in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN) of Unanesthetized, Decerebrate Gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus). Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts 17 17 (1994).

46. Ding,J Benson,TE Voigt,HF Physiology and Morphology of Neurons in Dorsal and Posteroventral Cochlear Nucleus of Unanesthetized, Decerebrate Gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus). Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts 17 17 (1994).

47. Lutchen,KR Eisenberg,SR Voigt,HF A Capstone Senior Project as Part of an Integrated Design Experience for BME Undergraduates American Society for Engineering Education Invited paper given June 27, 1994 in Edmonton, Canada.

48. Gdowski,GT Hancock,KE Voigt,HF Intrinsic Oscillations of Units in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN) of Barbiturate-Anesthetized Gerbils Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 20 137 (1994).

49. Davis,KA Voigt,HF Are the Differences in Unit Incidence Between Gerbil and Cat Dorsal Cochlear Nuclei (DCN) the Result of a Weaker Broadband Inhibitor? Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 20 137 (1994).

50. Ding,J Benson,TE Voigt,HF Intracellular Recordings of Cartwheel and Giant Cells in Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN) of Unanesthetized, Decerebrate Gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 20 136 (1994).

51. Gdowski,GT Voigt,HF Stimulus Dependent Neural Correlations in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN) of Barbiturate-Anesthetized Gerbils Biomedical Engineering Society Fall Meeting in Tempe AZ Annals of Biomedical Engineering 22 55 Invited paper (1994).

52. Davis,KA Voigt,HF Functional Interactions Between and Shared Input Among Neurons in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN) of Decerebrate Gerbil Biomedical Engineering Society Fall Meeting in Tempe AZ Annals of Biomedical Engineering 22 55 Invited paper (1994).

53. Hancock,KE Kimura,SR Davis,KA Voigt,HF Modeling Inhibition of Type II Units in Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Biomedical Engineering Society Fall Meeting in Tempe AZ Annals of Biomedical Engineering 22 52 Invited paper (1994).

54. Lutchen,KR Voigt,HF A Capstone Senior Project Program Combining Training in Design and Research with Technical Communication for Biomedical Engineering Undergraduates. NSF and Whitaker Foundation sponsored Design Workshop in Biomedical Engineering Invited paper (1994).

55. Fan,H Gdowski,GT Voigt,HF Effects of Stimulus Duration on "Intrinsic Oscillations" of units in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN) of Barbiturate-Anesthetized Gerbils Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts 18 186 (1995).

56. Ding,J Voigt,HF Application of a Nonlinear Least Squares Technique for Estimating Electrotonic Parameters of a Compartmental Neuron Model Biomedical Engineering Society Fall Meeting in Boston MA Annals of Biomedical Engineering 23 S-83 (1995).

57. Sigalovski,I Hancock,KE Voigt,HF The Effects of Stimulus Duration on the Response Properties of Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN) Units in Anesthetized Mongolian Gerbils Biomedical Engineering Society Fall Meeting in Boston MA Annals of Biomedical Engineering 23 53 S-87 (1995).

58. Lovell,JR Hancock,KE Voigt,HF Multiunit Recordings in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN) of Gerbils Using Multisite Microelectrodes Biomedical Engineering Society Fall Meeting in Boston MA Annals of Biomedical Engineering 23 S-84 (1995).

59. Ding,J Voigt,HF Intracellular Response Properties of Complex-spiking Units in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN) of Unanesthetized, Decerebrate Mongolian Gerbils Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts 19 170 (1996).

60. Hancock,KE Voigt,HF Intracellular Response Properties of Fusiform cells in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN) of barbiturate-anesthetized Mongolian Gerbils Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts 19 170 (1996).

61. Ding,J Voigt,HF Comparison of Acoustic Response Properties of Units Recorded Intracellularly and Extracellularly from Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN) of Unanesthetized, Decerebrate Gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 22 646 (1996).

62. Hancock,KE Voigt,HF Wideband Inhibition of Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Type IV Units: A Computational Model Whitaker Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Utah (1996 invited).

63. Hancock,KE Voigt,HF Wideband Inhibition of Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Type IV Units: A Computational Model Acoustical Signal Processing in the Central Auditory System An International Symposium, Prague (1996).

64. Gdowski, GT Voigt, HF Low Spontaneous Rate Units in the DCN of Barbiturate-anesthetized Gerbil cannot be Separated into type I/III and type II Unit Categories. Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts 20 45 (1997).

65. Fan, H Voigt, HF Effects of Brevital on the Response Properties of Type IV units in Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN) in Gerbil Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts 20 45 (1997).

66. Hancock,KE Voigt,HF Wideband Inhibition of Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Type IV Units: An Updated Computational Model Biomedical Engineering Society Fall Meeting in San Diego Annals of Biomedical Engineering 25 S-57 (1997).

67. Fan,H Voigt,HF The Effects of Brevital on the Response Properties of Type III units in Gerbil Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN) Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 23 1548 (1997).

68. Hancock,KE Voigt,HF Wideband Inhibition of Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Type IV Units: An Updated Computational Model Association for Research in Otolaryngology Abstracts 21 * (1998).

Recent Grant Activities and Awards (Back to index)

(1) Structure/Function Relations of Cochlear Nucleus Neurons; Principal Investigator: HF Voigt; National Institutes of Health, 1 July 1997 - 31 June 2002; $677,866.00 (direct costs), $1,125,030 (total costs).

(2) A Proposal to upgrade the Biomedical Engineering Data Acquisition and Data Analysis Laboratories. Principal Investigator: HF Voigt; Co-Investigators: C Smith, D Carolan, M White; AT&T; 1994; $125,000.00 (direct costs).

(3) Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Needs: Biomedical Engineering. Principal Investigator: HF Voigt; Co-Investigator: C Smith, S Eisenberg, M White; Department of Education; 1 September 1994 - 31 August 1998; Grant provides support for 7 fellowships for entering BME graduate students. $165,501.00 (direct costs 1st year).

(4) Research Experiences for Undergraduates: Biomedical Engineering. Principal Investigators: SR Eisenberg, HF Voigt; NSF; April 1, 1995 - March 31, 1998; Grant provides support for 8 fellowships for undergraduates from either outside of Boston University or from Boston U. to work during summers in BME labs at Boston U.; $154,513.00 (direct costs).

(5) Conference Grant for the Biomedical Engineering Society 1995 Meeting Principal Investigators: HF Voigt Whitaker Foundation; July 1, 1995 - June 31, 1996; Grant provides support for Student participation and for Young investigators of the Neural Engineering and Orthopaedic Engineering Tracks $28,000 (direct costs).

Ph.D. Thesis Supervision

Name	Year	Role	Thesis Title
Davis, KA	1995	Primary Advisor	Functional Interactions between type IV Units in Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN) of Decerebrate Gerbil.
Ding, J	1997	Primary Advisor	Acoustic Responses and Electrotonic Properites of Morphologicically-Defined Neurons in DCN of Decerebrate Gerbils: An Experimental and Modeling Study
Fan, H	1997	Primary Advisor	Effects of Brevital on the Response Properties of Units in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus. In progress.
Gdowski, GT	1996	Primary Advisor	Functional Interactions between Neurons in DCN of Barbiturate-Anesthetized Gerbil.
Hancock KE	1997	Primary Advisor	Functional/Structural Relationships of Neurons in DCN of Barbiturate-Anesthetized Gerbil. In Progress.
Hedberg, TG	1990	Reader	Laminar Analysis of the Subicular Projection to Area 29C in Rat Cingulate Cortex Slice.
Woods, WS	1995	Reader	Human Information Processing and Auditory Scene Anaylsis

Master of Science Thesis Supervision

Name	Year	Role	Thesis Title
Basavappa, Shanthala	1995	Primary Advisor	Three Dimensional Reconstruction of Cochlear Nucleus Neurons: A Comparative Study of Two Deconvolution Algorithms to Serial Microscopy.
Batra, Hans P.	1995	Reader	Synchronization of Motor Unit Firings During Contractions at Different Force Levels.
Culotta, Carrin P.	1988	Reader	Auditory Localization of Multiple Sources.
Dewagan, Navin P.	1995	Reader	Real-time, Selective NMR Excitation, 3D Velocity Measurements.
Gdowski, Greg T.	1989	Primary Advisor	A Semi-Automatic Data Acquisition Workstation for Neurophysiological Studies of the Auditory System.
Gomez, Giselle	1986	Reader	Muscle Force Output During Voluntary Contraction.
Maghirang, Jude	1991	Primary Advisor	Regularity and Latency Analysis in the Gerbil Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus.
More, Ashish	1995	Reader	Correlation of Calcium Concentration and Mechanical Activity in Esophageal Smooth Muscles.
Ravicz, Michael	1990	Primary Advisor	Measurement of the Acoustic Impedance of the Ear in Gerbil.
Shao, Guang	1990	Reader	Action Potential Data Collection System.
Teitsch, Terry	1992	Primary Advisor	Intracellular Response Properties of Cells Labled with HRP in Gerbil Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus.
Thomson, Scott	1990	Reader	A Semi-Automatic Stimulus Generation and Data Acquisition System for Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response.
Wallace, Robert	1991	Primary Advisor	Development of a Software Package for Multiple Unit Analysis of Neurophysiological Data.

Academic Service Department (Back to index)

Years	Committee
1981-82	Faculty Search
1981-82	Undergraduate Curriculum
1983-84	Facilities and Equipment
1981-92,96-	Graduate Studies (Chair 1982-92)
1987-92	Policy and Planning
1992-95	Department Chairman
1993-	Alpha Eta Mu Beta (Biomedical Engineering Honor Society) Advisor
1997-	Department Seminar Series

College of Engineering

Years	Committee
1981-82	Ad hoc committee on EK 307 (electric circuit theory)
1982-83	Lower Division (core curriculum)
1983-87	Graduate Program (Ph.D.)
1983-85	Ph.D. Examination Applied Mathematics Subcommittee
1987-88,96-	Ph.D. Examination Engineering/Science Subcommittee
	Biomedical Engineering Exam Chair
1988	G.R.A.F.T. Committee ex-officio
1988-89	Professional Practice Program
1989-92	College Graduate Committee
1989-	Engineering/Medical Integrated Curriculum (ENGMEDIC) Committee
1990-92	Academic Promotions and Tenure Committee
1991-92	Biomedical Engineering Chairman Search Committee
1992-95,96-	Executive Faculty Committee
1996-97	Search Committee for Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research

Graduate School: Division of Engineering and Applied Science

Years	Committee
1984-87	Executive Committee

University

Years	Committee
1983-85	Faculty Council: Curriculum and Academic Policy
1983-86	Ad hoc committee for a Neuroscience Program at Boston University
1986-87	Faculty Council: Nominating Committee (elected position)
1989-93	M.D./Ph.D. Program Committee
1989	I.A.C.U.C.
1989-92	University Biomedical Seed Grant Review Committee
1990-92	Presidential University Graduate Fellowship Committee
1991-92	Academic Standards
1991-92	Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
1993-94	Faculty Council: Nominating Committee (elected position)

Occasional reviewer for:

Annals of Biomedical Engineering; Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Hearing Research; Brain Research; Journal of Neurophysiology; Neuroscience; National Science Foundation; National Institutes of Health; The Wellcome Trust

Teaching and Professional Activities (Back to index)

Course	Title	Years
EK 100	Freshman Advising	1981-94,96
EK 121	Engineering Computation I	1987
EK 307	Electric Circuit Theory	1981(summer), 81, 82, 83
BE 302	Clinical Environments	1981
BE 401	Signals and Systems in BM.E.	1981*, 82*, 83-87, 88S, F, 89S, F, 90S, F, 91S, F, 96F, 97F
BE 465/466	Biomedical Engineering Sr. Project**	1982-96
BE 491	Engineering Physiology Laboratory	1981*, 82*, 83, 84
SC 401	Signals and Systems	1984
BE 790	Biomedical Engineering Graduate Seminar	1985-87, 88S, F, 89S, F, 90S, F, 91S, F
BE 522	Sensory and Neural Systems	1986*
BE 500	Signal Processing in the Auditory System	1989***, 91F

* substantial course development; ** supervised 46 Seniors through 39 projects; *** Team Taught Graduate Course

F - fall semester; S - spring semester

Professional Memberships

Acoustical Society of America; American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Society for Engineering Education; Association for Research in Otolaryngology; Council of Biomedical Engineering Chairs; Biomedical Engineering Society; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.; International Brain Research Organization/ World Federation of Neuroscientists; New York Academy of Sciences; International Neural Network Society; Society for Neuroscience; Alpha Eta Mu Beta

Professional Society Responsibilities

Biomedical Engineering Society Board of Directors (elected) 1995-1998; Biomedical Engineering Society Program Committee 1995-; Biomedical Engineering Society National Program Committee 1994- Chair 1996-97; Faculty Advisor and Founding member of the Boston University Chapter of Alpha Eta Mu Beta, the Biomedical Engineering Honor Society 1993-; Co-Chairman of the Program Committee for the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society hosted by Boston University; Organizer of Neuroengineering Track and Co-organizer of the New Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering Track for BMES '95; Member of the Council of Chairs of Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Programs 1992-1994; Secertary of Council of Chairs (elected) 1994-95.

Community Responsibilities

Member of Milton's Pierce Middle School Site Council; 1993-95

Personal Data

Born on October 27, 1952 in New York, NY; Married Ronit Gunst on April 5, 1975; Son, Justin David, born on June 24, 1981; Daughter, Emily Talia, born on June 25, 1985.