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 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

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. student
Area 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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