Research Staff & Visiting Scholars

Research Staff

Dave Anderson – Research Engineer, Hearing Research Center
Areas of Expertise: Software architecture, design, coding and integration; user interface development; general software wizardry.
Current Projects:
Development, maintenance and photography for the HRC Website. Lead developer for the ESME and EarLab projects in the Auditory Biophysics and Simulation Laboratory of the HRC.

Andrew Brughera – Research Associate, Hearing Research Center
Areas of Expertise and Interest: Computational models of brainstem neurons in acoustic hearing and cochlear implants; Software development, architecture, and algorithmic integrity in EarLab; Model implementation and support of the EarLab auditory modeling community

Oded Ghitza – Senior Research Associate, Hearing Research Center
Areas of Interest: Decoding speech using brain rhythmicity; Hierarchical brain rhythms and the basis for cortical computation; Central hearing impairment with the elderly and brain rhythmicity; Analysis of MEG signals recorded while performing a speech perception task; Predicting consonant confusions for minimal pairs, e.g. DRT; Modeling damaged cochleae – beyond non-speech psychophysics; Closed-loop auditory models for automatic speech recognition


Christine Mason – Research Associate, Dept. of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Areas of Interest:Psychoacoustics, Perceptual Consequences of Hearing Loss.


Andrew Tubelli – Research Associate, Hearing Research Center
Areas of Expertise: 3D reconstruction via medical imaging, finite element modeling of structural mechanics; medical animation and visuals; cetacean middle ear
Current Projects:
Understanding the mechanics of hearing in dolphins and whales via 3D reconstruction of the middle ear from CT and histology; finite element analysis of the middle ear bones to characterize motion; material property (i.e. elastic modulus) analysis through nanoindentation; postmortem examination of the auditory bulla.


Aleks Zosuls – Research Engineer, Hearing Research Center
Areas of Expertise: Designing and fabricating custom mechatronic systems. His primary research interests lie in cochlear and middle ear mechanics.
Current Projects:
Measuring mechanical properties of the basilar membrane, middle ear mechanics and head acoustics of cetacean, electronic auditory nerve simulators, sound localization and detection, echolocation for humans.


Gin Best

Cyrus Billimoria, Ph.D.

Lorraine Delhorne

Nathaniel I. Durlach

Antje Ihlefeld

Duk Joong Kim

David O’Gorman, Ph.D.

Tim Streeter

Eric Thompson

 

Visiting Scholars

Robert Gilkey
Visiting Scholar, Hearing Research Center
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Wright State University
Areas of Interests: Binaural Displays and Psychoacoustics