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 fourth-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.

Vani Putheti

Vani is a sophomore 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 junior 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.

Grace Davis

Grace is a freshman at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is currently majoring in Speech and Hearing Sciences. Grace is a James Scholar student, and her academic interests include studying child language disorders and learning how to assess and treat them. Her research interests include the maternity project and running the social media for the lab. She is interested in learning more about conducting experiments. After graduation, Grace hopes to attend Graduate school to obtain her master’s in Pediatric Speech-Language Pathology.