Brian B. Monson, PhD

Dr. Brian Monson is the director of the Auditory Neuro Experience Lab. His field of research is in auditory neuroscience. He holds degrees in electrical engineering, acoustics, and speech/language/hearing science, with further specialization in neuroscience and music. With this background, he takes an interdisciplinary approach to auditory research, interfacing with clinicians, scientists, engineers, and musicians. His research interests center around auditory neurodevelopment and speech/voice perception (see CV here).

Allison Trine, AuD

Dr. Allison Trine is a research audiologist and the Lab Coordinator for the Auditory Neuro Experience Lab. She holds degrees in communication sciences and disorders, Spanish, and recently completed her Doctor of Audiology degree. Her research interests include extended high frequency hearing, the role of ecological listening environments in speech perception, auditory development across the lifespan, and translational research that bridges the laboratory to the clinic.

Vahid Delaram

Vahid is a third-year PhD student in the Speech and Hearing Science department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Audiology and has worked as a clinical audiologist for two years in the Middle East and Europe. He is interested in researching high-frequency hearing, speech perception, audiology neuroscience, and hearing aids. His favorite place to study and do research is crowded libraries, where lots of people get lost in their books.

Rohit Ananthanarayana

Rohit is a third year PhD student in Speech and Hearing Science. He has a background in audio signal processing and obtained his master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in India, developing algorithms in machine listening to solve music information retrieval tasks. His current research interests include speech perception and building computational models of human auditory perception.

Jana Khudr

Jana is in her third year of the Doctor of Audiology program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her Bachelor of Science in Medical Audiology Sciences with a minor in Public Health from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. Her professional interests include amplification and pediatric audiology. Her research interests include auditory neurodevelopment and optimizing care for vulnerable populations.

Marjorie Campbell

Marjorie is a senior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign majoring in Psychology. Her academic interests focus on studying the challenges that marginalized communities face and developing psychologically informed interventions that help mitigate these challenges. Her current research interests include language acquisition in pre-term infants and speech-in-noise perception with EHF impairment. She is excited to assist with the research being done in the lab’s Extended High Frequency and Perinatal Auditory Experience studies.

Mary Bresnahan

Mary is a freshman at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is currently majoring in Kinesiology and is on the Pre-Health track. Mary is a James Scholars student, and her academic interests include studying anatomy and physiology, pediatric development, and the bioscience of human movement. Her research interests include analyzing newborn baby’s Otoacoustic Emissions data collected in the Prenatal Auditory Experience Lab. After graduation, Mary hopes to attend Physician Assistant school with a focus in pediatrics.

Vani Putheti

Vani is a freshman at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, currently majoring in neuroscience. Her academic interests include statistics, philosophy of science, and the intersection of molecular and systems neuroscience. Her research interests include the role of extended high frequencies in speech perception. Vani plans to eventually attend graduate school and gain the skills necessary to conduct her own experiments.

Kyle Keliuotis

Kyle is a sophomore at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently majoring in Brain and Cognitive Science with a minor in Computer Science. His academic interests include deep learning models, neurobiological research, and human-computer interaction. His research interests include investigating methods to model full bandwidth audio data from limited bandwidth audio data through Artificial Neural Networks, to predict properties of Extended High Frequencies. Kyle eventually hopes to attend graduate school to learn more about the intersection between cognitive science, behavioral science, and data science.