Faculty
Faculty
 Virginia Best, Ph.D.Research Associate Professor, 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. |
 Jennifer Bentley, Au.D
Clinical Assistant Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences |
 Charles B. Chang, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Linguistics Areas of Interest: Speech perception, speech production, perceptual learning, linguistic plasticity, bilingual cognition. |
 Oded Ghitza, Ph.D.Research Professor, Biomedical Engineering Areas of Interest: Decoding speech using neuronal oscillations; Hierarchical neuronal oscillators and the basis for cortical computation; Analysis of MEG signals recorded while performing a speech perception task. |
 Sheryl Grace, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Areas of Interest: Aerodynamics; Fluid dynamics; Acoustics |
 Ken Grundfast, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P.Chief, Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, BMC Professor and Chairman, Boston University School of Medicine Areas of Interest: Pediatric otolaryngology and audiology, methods for overcoming financial impediments to hearing aid purchase. |
 Xue Han, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering Areas of Interest: Neurotechnology, optical neural modulation, optogenetics, neural prosthetics, neural network dynamics, brain rhythms, neurological and psychiatric diseases, cognition. |
 Allyn E. Hubbard, Ph.D.Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Areas of Interest: Auditory physiology; modeling; neurocomputing; VLSI in biomedical applications; Biosensors. |
 Gerald Kidd, Jr., Ph.D.Professor, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Areas of Interest: Auditory perception and processing of complex sounds in multiple-sound environments; effects of hearing loss on the discrimination of complex sound and auditory processing. |
 S. Hamid Nawab, Ph.D.Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Areas of Interest: Digital signal processing; applied artificial intelligence; biosignal separation and identification. |
 Tyler Perrachione, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Areas of Interest: Developmental disorders of language and reading; Human voice recognition and social auditory perception; Mechanisms of plasticity in human auditory cortex; Brain bases of complex auditory processing |
 Elin Roverud, Au.D., Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences |
 Kamal Sen, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering Areas of Interest: Neural coding of natural sounds; hierarchical processing of natural sounds, auditory learning. |
Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Statistics |
 Cara E. Stepp, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences Areas of Interest: Quantitative study of sensorimotor function, particularly voice, speech, and swallowing, engineering design for rehabilitation of sensorimotor disorders |
Visiting Faculty
 William M. Hartmann, Ph.D.Visiting Professor Areas of Interest: Pitch perception, binaural hearing, sound localization. |
Affiliated Faculty
 Peter Cariani, Ph.D.Senior Research Scientist, Biomedical Engineering Areas of Interest: Auditory neuroscience; cybernetics; biosemiotics; anesthesia and neural coding; emergence and creativity; radical constructivism. |
 Douglas A. Cotanche, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School Areas of Interest: Developmental factors which regulate the growth of hair cells. |
 Lisa Shatz, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Engineering, Suffolk University Areas of Interest: The mechanics of sensor hairs (vibrissae and inner ear hair bundles) and developing acoustic sensors based upon sensor hair mechanics. |
Emeritus Faculty
 H. Steven Colburn, Ph.D.Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Areas of Interest: Measurement and modeling of binaural interaction; simulated acoustic environments (virtual). |
 Melanie L. Matthies, Ph.D.Senior Associate Dean, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College Professor Emeritus and Chair, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences Areas of Interest: Speech perception in normal hearing and with hearing loss; relation between speech perception and speech production in cochlear implant patients. |
 Malvin C. Teich, Ph.D.Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics Areas of Interest: Biomedical signal processing, neural coding, psychophysics. |
