• FACULTY AND STAFF
• POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
• GRADUATE STUDENTS
• ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

FACULTY AND STAFF

H. Steven Colburn, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering

• Research Interests: Binaural interaction; simulated acoustic environments (virtual)
• Laboratory: Binaural Hearing Laboratory

Douglas A. Cotanche, Ph.D., Anatomy and Neurobiology

• Research Interests: Developmental factors which regulate the growth of hair cells
• Laboratory: Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Hearing Research

L. Clarke Cox , Ph.D., Otolaryngology

• Research Interests: Auditory evoked response, pediatric/neonatal hearing loss, OAE's, cochlear hearing loss
• Laboratory: Vestibular Laboratory

Nathaniel I. Durlach, Biomedical Engineering

• Research Interests: Auditory psychophysics, virtual environments, and spatial processing.
• Laboratories: Auditory Perception Laboratory, Psychoacoustics Laboratory, and CNS Psychoacoustics Laboratory

Ken Grundfast, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P.

• Research Interests: See web page

J. Michael Harrison, Ph.D., Psychology

• Research Interests: The way sounds control the behavior of land dwelling mammals, pipe organ acoustics and psychoacoustics

William S. Hellman, Ph.D., Physics

• Research Interests: Signal detection and neural- processing systems; loudness coding; intensity discrimination

Allyn E. Hubbard, Ph.D., Electrical,Computer, and Systems Engineering/Biomedical Engineering

• Research Interests: Auditory physiology; modeling; neurocomputing; VLSI in biomedical applications; Biosensors
• Laboratories: Cochlear Biophysics Laboratory, Biomimetic Systems Laboratory

Gerald Kidd, Jr., Ph.D., Communication Disorders

• Research Interests: Auditory perception of complex, nonspeech sounds; effects of hearing loss on the discrimination of complex sound and auditory processing
• Laboratory: Psychoacoustics Laboratory

Christine Mason, Communication Disorders

• Research Interests: Auditory perception of complex, nonspeech sounds; effects of hearing loss on the discrimination of complex sound and auditory processing
• Laboratory: Psychoacoustics Laboratory

Melanie L. Matthies, Ph.D., Communication Disorders

• Research Interests: Perception of speech; relation between speech perception and speech production; basic speech production processes
• Laboratory: Speech Perception Laboratory

David C. Mountain, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering

• Research Interests: Auditory information processing; sensory biophysics; computer simulation; biomedical electronics and biomedical and signal processing
• Laboratories: Cochlear Biophysics Laboratory, Biomimetic Systems Laboratory

S. Hamid Nawab, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering/Biomedical Engineering

• Research Interests: Digital signal processing; robotic hearing; signal understanding
• Laboratory: Knowledge-Based Signal Processing Group

Kamal Sen , Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering

• Research Interests: Neural coding of natural sounds; hierarchical processing of natural sounds, auditory learning.
• Laboratory: Natural Sounds and Neural Coding Laboratory

Lisa Shatz, Ph.D., Department of Electrical Engineering, Suffolk University

• Research Interests: The mechanics of sensor hairs (vibrissae and inner ear hair bundles) and developing acoustic senosors based upon sensor hair mechanics.

Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham, Ph.D., Cognitive and Neural Systems

• Research Interests: Binaural and spatial hearing, sound localization, attention, auditory scene analysis, auditory perceptual plasticity
• Laboratory: CNS Psychoacoustics Laboratory

John R. Stram, M.D., Otolaryngology

• Research Interests: Temporal bone based disease

Malvin C. Teich, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering/Biomedical Engineering

• Research Interests: Biomedical signal processing, neural coding, psychophysics
• Laboratory: Biological Information Transmission Laboratory

Herbert F. Voigt, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering/Otolaryngology

• Research Interests: Auditory neurophysiology; neural circuitry; neural modeling
• Laboratory: Auditory Neurophysiology Laboratory

David Anderson , Biomedical Engineering

• Research Interests: Computer Science; Earlab Modules
• Laboratories: Cochlear Biophysics Laboratory, Biomimetic Systems Laboratory

Andrew Brughera , Biomedical Engineering

• Research Interests: Computational Models of Auditory Neurons; Earlab Modules
• Laboratories: Binaural Hearing Laboratory, Biomimetic Systems Laboratory

Lorraine Delhorne , BME and CNS and SAR

• Research Interests: Psychophysical Methods; Human Subject Specialist
• Laboratories: Binaural Hearing Laboratory, CNS Psychoacoustics Laboratory, SAR Psychoacoustics Laboratory

Viktor Vajda , Biomedical Engineering

• Research Interests: Data bases; data mining
• Laboratories: Cochlear Biophysics Laboratory, Biomimetic Systems Laboratory

Xuedong "Frank" Zhang , Biomedical Engineering

• Research Interests: Computational Auditory Models
• Laboratories: Cochlear Biophysics Laboratory, Biomimetic Systems Laboratory

Aleks Zokuls , Biomedical Engineering

• Research Interests: Biomedical electronics and biomedical and signal processing
• Laboratories: Cochlear Biophysics Laboratory, Biomimetic Systems Laboratory

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

Cyrus Billimoria - Lab: Natural Sounds and Neural Coding Lab (Kamal Sen) -Biomedical Engineering

David O'Gorman - Labs: Binaural Hearing Lab (Steve Colburn) and Center for BioDynamics (Nancy Kopell)

GRADUATE STUDENTS - 2007

Mikhil Bopaiah - Advisor: David C. Mountain -Biomedical Engineering

Suzanne Carr - Advisor: H. Steven Colburn - Biomedical Engineering

Christine Carter - Advisor: Gerald Kidd, Jr. - Communication Disorders

Yoojin Chung - Advisor: H. Steven Colburn - Biomedical Engineering

Matt Crema - Advisor: David C. Mountain -Biomedical Engineering

Ahmad El-Katerji - Advisor: David C. Mountain -Biomedical Engineering

Gilberto Grana - Advisor: Kamal Sen - Biomedical Engineering

Antje Ihlefeld - Advisor: Barbara Shinn-Cunningham - Cognitive and Neural Systems and Biomedical Engineering

Christian Karl - Advisor: Allyn E. Hubbard - Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering

Kosuke Kawakyu - Advisor: Barbara Shinn-Cunningham - Cognitive and Neural Systems and Biomedical Engineering

Alvin Khan - Advisor: David C. Mountain -Biomedical Engineering

Duck Joong Kim - Advisor: Allyn E. Hubbard - Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering

Lee Lichtenstein - Advisor: David C. Mountain -Biomedical Engineering

Shan Lu - Advisor: David C. Mountain -Biomedical Engineering

Dominic Mangiardi - Advisor: David C. Mountain -Biomedical Engineering

Nicole Marrone - Advisor: Melanie L. Matthies - Communication Disorders

Cameron Morland - Advisor: David C. Mountain -Biomedical Engineering

Rajiv Narayan - Advisor: Kamal Sen - Biomedical Engineering

Rapeechai "Pom" Navawongse - Advisor: Herbert F. Voigt -Biomedical Engineering

Seth Newburg - Advisor: David C. Mountain - Biomedical Engineering

Tracy Pogal-Sussman - Advisor: H. Steven Colburn - Biomedical Engineering

Tim Streeter - Advisor: Barbara Shinn-Cunningham - Cognitive and Neural Systems and Biomedical Engineering

Rui Wan - Advisor: H. Steven Colburn - Biomedical Engineering

Dali Wang - Advisor: Barbara Shinn-Cunningham - Cognitive and Neural Systems and Biomedical Engineering

Le Wang - Advisor: H. Steven Colburn - Biomedical Engineering

Aaron Wolfson - Advisor: H. Steven Colburn - Biomedical Engineering

Jie "Jane" Yan - Advisor: David C. Mountain - Biomedical Engineering

Franck Zagadou - Advisor: David C. Mountain - Biomedical Engineering

Zibang Yang - Advisor: Allyn E. Hubbard - Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Emma Barber
Kelli Bechly
Marie Clarke
Hayley Cotter
Akshay Navaladi
Nikki Wittrock

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

H. Steven Colburn Director

Nancy Maguire Administrator

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