Our Team

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 Doctor of Audiology. 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.

Martha Lopez

Martha is a sophomore at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is majoring in psychology and minoring in chemistry on the pre-med track. Her academic interests include studying how cognitive processes shape behavior and development. Her research interests focus on the role of extended high frequencies in speech perception and head orientation discrimination. Outside of academics, Martha enjoys reading, going to the gym, and biking. She hopes to eventually attend med school and pursue a career in the medical field.

Sabrina Modi

Sabrina is a junior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology on the pre-med track. Her academic interests include genetics, neurobiology, and human physiology. She is particularly interested in research exploring how extended high frequencies contribute to auditory processing, especially in speech perception and head orientation discrimination. Outside of academics, Sabrina enjoys playing volleyball, cooking, and running. She hopes to attend medical school and pursue a career in a surgical field.

Daniel Zhang

Daniel is a freshman at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, majoring in interdisciplinary health science. He is a James scholar student with an academic interest in learning more about statistical analysis, chemistry, and EHF in speech perception. He is also interested in conducting more research in the future. After graduation, he plans to attend medical school to become a physician.