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.