Auditory Biophysics and Simulation Laboratory
Department of Biomedical Engineering
44 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215
Principal Investigators: David C. Mountain, Allyn E. Hubbard
Faculty
David C. Mountain, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Areas of Interest: Auditory information processing; sensory biophysics; computer simulation; biomedical electronics and biomedical and signal processing.
Allyn E. Hubbard, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Areas of Interest: Auditory physiology; modeling; neurocomputing; VLSI in biomedical applications; Biosensors.
Staff
Dave Anderson – Research Engineer, Hearing Research CenterAreas 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 CenterAreas 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
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
Postdoctoral Students
Duk Joong Kim
Graduate Students
Nael Musleh – Electrical and Computer Engineering Master's student
Franck Zagadou – Senior Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. studentArea of Expertise and Interest: Theoretical and Computational Continuum Mechanics, Acoustics, Vibration and Wave propagation.
Ph.D. Project: Numerical modeling of a detailed 3D representation of the organ of Corti to study the micromechanical interaction between the cellular components and interstitial fluid to help understand the role of radial fluid flow.
Mikhil Bopaiah
Jie Yan
Undergraduate Students
Tom Hagedorn
Dana Jaeger
Jared Saffie
Collaborators
Paul Barbone, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Douglas Cotanche, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Otolaryngology and Anatomy & Neurobiology
Dorian Houser, Ph.D. Biomimetica, Inc.
Darlene Ketten, Ph.D. Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution
Mike Porter, Ph.D., Heat, Light, and Sound Research, Inc.
Martin Siderius, Ph.D., Portland State University
Alumni
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