Dr. Ian C. Bruce

B.Eng., Ph.D. (Melbourne), P.Eng. (Ontario)
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Head: Auditory Engineering Lab (AEL)
Member: McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering
Member: McMaster School of Computational Engineering & Science
Member: McMaster Integrative Neuroscience Discovery & Study Program
Member: McMaster Institute for Music & the Mind
Associate Member: Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Room ITB-A213
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1
Canada

Tel: + 1 (905) 525 9140, ext. 26984
Fax: + 1 (905) 521 2922

Email: ibruce@ieee.org
Home page: www.ece.mcmaster.ca/~ibruce/

Research Interests

My interests are in the areas of biomedical engineering and signal processing applied to the mammalian auditory system. Research in the AEL is primarily focused on using engineering methods to study and model the physiological mechanisms that contribute to hearing loss and to improve assistive devices for the hearing impaired such as hearing aids and cochlear implants.

Auditory Engineering Lab (AEL) Members

Current AEL members

Former AEL members

Teaching

Present:

EE 3BB3: Cellular Bioelectricity (Winter 2013)
ECE 796: Models of the Neuron (Winter 2013)

Past:

EE 3BA3: Structure of Biological Materials (Fall 2012; Fall 2011; Fall 2010; Fall 2008; Fall 2007; Fall 2006; Fall 2005; Fall 2004)
EE 3BB3: Cellular Bioelectricity (Fall 2011; Winter 2011; Winter 2008; Winter 2007; Winter 2006; Winter 2005)
ECE 795: Quantitative Electrophysiology (Fall 2012; Fall 2010; Fall 2008; Fall 2007; Fall 2006)
(Winter 2011; Winter 2009; Winter 2007; Fall 2005; Fall 2004; Fall 2002 - as ECE 768)
EE 4CL4: Control System Design (Winter 2004; Winter 2003)
ECE 797: Speech and Audio Processing (Winter 2004; Winter 2003 - as ECE 769)
COE 4TL4: Digital Signal Processing (Fall 2003)

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Curriculum Vitae

Reprints and Preprints (For a complete list of publications see my CV.)

International Congress on Acoustics 2013 paper: Bruce, I. C., Léger, A. C., Moore, B. C., and Lorenzi, C. (2013). "Physiological prediction of masking release for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners," in Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics: ICA 2013 Montreal, vol. 19, Acoustical Society of America, NY, p. 050178. NEW

ARO 2013 posters: Boulet & Bruce (#985); Wirtzfeld & Bruce (#214); Zilany, Bruce, Ibrahim & Carney (#914) NEW

Code for evaluation of Fox & Lu's approximation to stochastic Hodgkin–Huxley models (Bruce, ABME 2009)

Code for stochastic Hodgkin–Huxley models (Bruce, ABME 2007)

Code for the Zilany-Bruce auditory-periphery model (Zilany and Bruce, JASA 2006 & 2007)

Code for the Mustafa-Bruce Formant Tracker (Mustafa and Bruce, IEEE-TASLP 2006)

Code for the Bruce et al. (1999, 2000) stochastic electrical neural stimulation models

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