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Faculty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Virginia Best, Ph.D.<\/a>
\nResearch Associate Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
\nAreas of Interest: <\/em>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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a>Jennifer Bentley, Au.D<\/a><\/p>\n

Clinical Assistant Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
<\/span>Areas of Interest:\u00a0<\/em>Adult and pediatric audiology, aural rehabilitation, perceptual\/auditory training, neonatal auditory assessment.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Charles B. Chang, Ph.D.<\/a>
\nAssociate Professor, Linguistics
\nAreas of Interest: <\/em>Speech perception, speech production, perceptual learning, linguistic plasticity, bilingual cognition.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oded Ghitza, Ph.D.<\/a>
\nResearch Professor, Biomedical Engineering
\nAreas of Interest: <\/em>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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sheryl Grace, Ph.D.<\/a>
\nAssociate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
\nAreas of Interest: <\/em>Aerodynamics; Fluid dynamics; Acoustics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ken Grundfast, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P.<\/a>
\nChief, Department of Otolaryngology \u2013 Head and Neck Surgery, BMC
\nProfessor and Chairman, Boston University School of Medicine
\nAreas of Interest:<\/em> Pediatric otolaryngology and audiology, methods for overcoming financial impediments to hearing aid purchase.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Xue Han, Ph.D.<\/a>
\nAssociate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
\nAreas of Interest: <\/em>Neurotechnology, optical neural modulation, optogenetics, neural prosthetics, neural network dynamics, brain rhythms, neurological and psychiatric diseases, cognition.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Allyn E. Hubbard, Ph.D.<\/a>
\nProfessor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
\nAreas of Interest: <\/em>Auditory physiology; modeling; neurocomputing; VLSI in biomedical applications; Biosensors.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gerald Kidd, Jr., Ph.D.<\/a>
\nProfessor, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
\nAreas of Interest: <\/em>Auditory perception and processing of complex sounds in multiple-sound environments; effects of hearing loss on the discrimination of complex sound and auditory processing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
S. Hamid Nawab, Ph.D.<\/a>
\nProfessor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
\nAreas of Interest: <\/em>Digital signal processing; applied artificial intelligence; biosignal separation and identification.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tyler Perrachione, Ph.D.<\/a>
\nAssistant Professor, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
\nAreas of Interest: <\/em>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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Elin Roverud, Au.D., Ph.D.<\/a><\/p>\n

Research Assistant Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
\nAreas of Interest: <\/em>Effects of hearing loss on auditory perception, auditory attention in multisource conditions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Kamal Sen, Ph.D.<\/a>
\nAssociate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
\nAreas of Interest: <\/em>Neural coding of natural sounds; hierarchical processing of natural sounds, auditory learning.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Emily Stephen, Ph.D.<\/a><\/p>\n

Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
\nAreas of Interest: <\/em>Statistical modeling and analysis of neural recordings across spatial scales.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Cara E. Stepp, Ph.D.<\/a>
\nAssistant Professor, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
\nAreas of Interest: <\/em>Quantitative study of sensorimotor function, particularly voice, speech, and swallowing, engineering design for rehabilitation of sensorimotor disorders<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Visiting Faculty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a>William M. Hartmann, Ph.D.<\/a>
\nVisiting Professor
\nAreas of Interest: <\/em>Pitch perception, binaural hearing, sound localization.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Affiliated Faculty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a>Peter Cariani, Ph.D.
\n<\/a>Senior Research Scientist, Biomedical Engineering
\nAreas of Interest: <\/i>Auditory neuroscience; cybernetics; biosemiotics; anesthesia and neural coding; emergence and creativity; radical constructivism.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a>Douglas A. Cotanche, Ph.D.
\n<\/a>Associate Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School
\nAreas of Interest: <\/i>Developmental factors which regulate the growth of hair cells.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a>Lisa Shatz, Ph.D.
\n<\/a>Associate Professor, Engineering, Suffolk University
\nAreas of Interest: <\/i>The mechanics of sensor hairs (vibrissae and inner ear hair bundles) and developing acoustic sensors based upon sensor hair mechanics.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Emeritus Faculty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a>H. Steven Colburn, Ph.D.<\/a>
\nProfessor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering
\nAreas of Interest: <\/em>Measurement and modeling of binaural interaction; simulated acoustic environments (virtual).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a>Melanie L. Matthies, Ph.D.<\/a>
\nSenior Associate Dean, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College
\nProfessor Emeritus and Chair, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
\nAreas of Interest: <\/em>Speech perception in normal hearing and with hearing loss; relation between speech perception and speech production in cochlear implant patients.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a>Malvin C. Teich, Ph.D.<\/a>
\nProfessor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics
\nAreas of Interest: <\/em>Biomedical signal processing, neural coding, psychophysics.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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