Julia (Feld) Strand, MS, PhD

Julia (Feld) Strand, MS, PhD

Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, 2010

Julia investigated audiovisual integration useful for improving recognition of speech in noise.

She went on to become a professor in Psychology at Carleton College.

Kiron Sukeson, MS

Kiron Sukeson, MS

Master of Science in Computer Science, 2017

Kiron was instrumental in the application of simulations to confirm the properties of machine learning audiometric tests.

He went on to a career in machine learning software development.

Dan Sun, MS

Dan Sun, MS

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, 2019

Dan analyzed data from pediatric brain tumor patients to construct better predictors of clinical outcomes.

She went on to a career of machine learning software development.

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Haoxin Sun, PhD

Haoxin worked in the lab during Fall 2010 as a biomedical engineering doctoral rotation student on the effect of stimulus size and receptive field size on encoding in auditory cortex neurons.

Wensheng Sun, PhD

Wensheng Sun, PhD

Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering, 2017

Wensheng characterized the population encoding of sound in auditory cortex using machine learning analytic methods.

She went on to a career in data science.

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Adhira Sunkara, PhD

Adhira worked in the lab during Spring 2009 as a biomedical engineering doctoral rotation student.

Zhiyi (Elyse) Tang

Zhiyi (Elyse) Tang

Elyse is working in the lab starting Spring 2022 to modernize the machine learning audiogram web site.

Christopher Teng

Christopher Teng

Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science, Candidate

Chris investigated how best to extract behavioral data from Minecraft gameplay logs in order to design richer cognitive tests.

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Joel Tiemeyer

Joel worked in the lab during Summer 2010 as a biomedical engineering undergraduate working on neuronal responses to noisy vocalizations in auditory cortex.

John Vaszari, MD

John Vaszari, MD

Doctor of Medicine, 2010

John worked in the lab as a Medical/Masters student from Summer 2008 through Fall 2008.

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Krista Vedvik, BS

Krista worked in the lab during Summer 2012 as a biomedical engineering undergraduate.

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Trisha Venkatasetty

Trisha worked in the lab during Fall 2005 as a biomedical engineering undergraduate.

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Sarah Wahlstrom Helgren, PhD

Sarah worked in the lab during Fall 2010 as a biomedical engineering doctoral rotation student working on infrasound detection in the auditory system.

Alexandra Walker, AuD

Alexandra Walker, AuD

Doctor of Audiology, 2020

Alex helped clinically validate the first dynamically masked machine learning audiogram.

Edgar Walker, MD, PhD

Edgar Walker, MD, PhD

Doctor of Medicine and Neuroscience, 2019

Edgar developed the math behind discrete controlled release, which induces structured neurite outgrowth to interface with a therapeutic brain computer interface.

He went on to pursue an MD/PhD in computational neuroscience in Baylor and establish a research career in computational neuroscience.

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Alan Wang

Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science, Candidate

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Alice Wang

Alice worked in the lab during Spring 2013 as a computer science undergraduate.

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Huihao Wang

Bachelors of Biomedical Engineering, Candidate

Huihao worked on visualization of complex latent variable models.

Will Wang

Will Wang

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Will helped configure a cloud-based machine learning server to build cognitive models from behavioral data.

Paul Watkins, PhD

Paul Watkins, PhD

Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering, 2009

Paul worked on understanding the nature of dynamic range encoding of auditory cortex neurons.

He went on to a career in academic neuroscience research and software design.

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Alex Wei

Alex worked in the lab Spring 2015 as a biomedical engineering doctoral rotation student.

Jesse Wheeler, PhD

Jesse Wheeler, PhD

Jesse worked in the lab during Fall 2008 as a biomedical engineering doctoral rotation student.

He went on to a career in the neurotechnology industry.

Ken Wilbur

Ken Wilbur

Bachelor of Computer Science and Applied Math, Candidate

Ken is working to evaluate and extend the capabilities of machine learning contrast sensitivity function estimators.

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Melissa Wong

Melissa worked in the lab during Spring 2015 as a biomedical engineering undergraduate.

Quinn Wai Wong

Quinn Wai Wong

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Quinn Wai is working to evaluate the lab's machine learning contrast sensitivity function estimator.

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Patrick Wright, PhD

Patrick worked in the lab during Fall 2010 as a biomedical engineering doctoral rotation student on hardware designs for rewiring cortical circuits.

Brittany (Wallace) Wuebbles, AuD

Brittany (Wallace) Wuebbles, AuD

Doctor of Audiology, 2016

Brittany performed the first clinical validation of machine learning audiometry.

She went on to become an academic clinical audiologist.

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Edward Xie

Edward worked in the lab Summer 2015 as a computer science undergraduate.

Kevin Xie, MS

Kevin Xie, MS

Master of Science in Computer Science, 2020

Kevin worked in the lab from Summer 2018 to Spring 2020 as a biomedical engineering undergraduate and computer science master's student to implement semantic auditory search apps and analyze the resulting data.

He went on to pursue a PhD in Bioengineering at University of Pennsylvania

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Yunlu Xue

Yunlu worked in the lab Spring 2011 as a biomedical engineering doctoral rotation student on the encoding of noisy vocalizations in auditory cortex.

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Zeyang Yu

Zeyang worked in the lab from Spring 2012 to Spring 2013 as a biomedical engineering undergraduate.

Eric Zhang, BS

Eric Zhang, BS

Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering

Eric worked on characterizing the network behavior of cultured neurons.

He went on to pursue a PhD in biomedical engineering at University of Washington.

Yishan (Ethan) Zheng

Yishan (Ethan) Zheng

Ethan is working on generalizing the likelihood functions in our estimators of perceptual and cognitive variables.

Xiaochen Zhou, MS

Xiaochen Zhou, MS

Master of Science in Computer Science, 2020

Xiaochen worked on developing Python-based active learning code for cognitive testing.

He went on to pursue a PhD in computer science at Purdue University.

Zhiting (Tina) Zhou

Zhiting (Tina) Zhou

Bachelor's and Master's of Computer Engineering, Candidate

Zhiting is extending the machine learning contrast sensitivity estimator to include other related data streams.