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.

Virginia Best – Research Associate, Dept. of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Areas of Interest:Spatial hearing, auditory scene analysis, auditory attention, hearing loss Current Projects: Effects of hearing loss on spatial hearing, sound localization and hearing aids, auditory grouping and bilateral cochlear implants

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

Lorraine Delhorne – Senior Research Scientist, Hearing Research Center
Areas of Interest: Tactile communication, Tactile aids, Hearing aids, Cochlear implants

Nathaniel I. Durlach – Visiting Scholar, Hearing Research Center
Areas of Interest: Auditory Perception (psychoacoustics). Binaural hearing, informational masking, hearing aids

Duk Joong Kim –Research Associate, Hearing Research Center
Areas of Expertise: Mixed-signal circuit design, layout, implementation and verification. Primary interest is designing full custom VLSI ASIC chips using standard CMOS and high-voltage CMOS processes.
Current Projects: Development, simulation and verification of multi-compartmental cochlear models.

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

David O'Gorman – Sr. Research Associate, Hearing Research Center
Areas of Expertise and Interest: The biophysics and nonlinear dynamics of neural spike generation; speech and hearing science. The nonlinear dynamics of spike generation in the auditory periphery and brainstem; the role of dynamical instability in the neural encoding of modulation and fine-timing; and optimizing neuro-electrical and neuro-optical (laser) stimulation for conveyance of speech.

Tim Streeter – Research Engineer, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Areas of Interest: Binaural hearing, hearing impairment, speech perception.

Eric Thompson – Research Associate, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Areas of Expertise and Interest:Psychoacoustics, binaural hearing, auditory modeling, auditory perception in reverberant environments, room acoustics

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.