RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Biomedical Engineering Cochlear Implants and Hearing Aids Neural Coding of Sound

Neurophysiology Speech Perception Psychophysics

Digital Speech Processing Mathematical Modeling Stochastic and Nonlinear Systems

EDUCATION:

August 1994 – December 1997	PhD by Research, Department of Otolaryngology, The University of Melbourne Thesis Title: Spatiotemporal coding of sound in the auditory nerve for cochlear implants Supervisors: Prof. Graeme M. Clark and Dr. Laurence S. Irlicht Conferred: Saturday April 4, 1998
1988 – 1991	Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic), The University of Melbourne Conferred: September 1993

Awards:

• Innovator of Distinction Award from McMaster University, June 2009.
• Barber-Gennum Chair in Information Technology, 2002–2006
• Special Postgraduate Studentship, awarded by The Bionic Ear Institute, 1997
• Special Postgraduate Studentship, awarded by the Human Communication Research Centre, Department of Otolaryngology, The University of Melbourne, 1994–1996
• Sheila Drummond Bursary for Work in the Fields of Speech and Hearing, awarded by Quota South Pacific Area Scholarships, 1995
• Academic Scholarship, Uniting Church of Australia, 1989
• Melbourne University Half-Blue (Sports Award) in Judo, 1989

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

July 2008 – present	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering McMaster University, Hamilton ON, CANADA – Associate Professor (tenured)
July 2009 – June 2010	Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Melbourne – Visiting Scholar
July 2009 – June 2010	The Bionic Ear Institute Melbourne, AUSTRALIA – Visiting Scholar
July 2008 – June 2009	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering McMaster University, Hamilton ON, CANADA - Acting coordinator of B.Eng./M.Eng. program in Electrical & Biomedical Engineering
January 2002 – June 2008	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering McMaster University, Hamilton ON, CANADA – Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
May 1998 – December 2001	Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Hearing Sciences Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, USA – Postdoctoral Fellow. (Supervisors: Profs. Murray B. Sachs and Eric D. Young)
December 1997 – April 1998	The Bionic Ear Institute Melbourne, AUSTRALIA – Senior Research Assistant
July 1993 – July 1994	Biosensor Technology Group (previously Department of Bioelectricity & Magnetism) Institute of Electrodynamics, Microwave and Circuit Engineering (previously Institute for the Principles & Theory of Electrical Engineering) Vienna University of Technology, AUSTRIA – Research and Teaching Assistant

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP:

Licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario (PEO)

Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
– IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)
– IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS)

Member of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO)

Member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

Member of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)

AD-HOC REVIEWER FOR:

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Neural Computation Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology Journal of Neuroscience Signal Processing Brain Research The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council The Canadian Institutes of Health Research National Research Foundation, South Africa National Science Foundation, USA The Marsden Fund, New Zealand Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Journal of Computational Neuroscience PLoS ONE

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Annals of Biomedical Engineering BioSystems Mathematical Biosciences IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing Hearing Research Biomedizinische Technik Journal of the Royal Society Interface South African Journal of Science EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing PLoS Computational Biology Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Chrostowski, M., Yang, L., Wilson, H. R., Bruce, I. C., and Becker, S. (2011). "Can homeostatic plasticity in deafferented primary auditory cortex lead to travelling waves of excitation?" Journal of Computational Neuroscience 30(2):279–299.

Zilany, M. S. A., Bruce, I. C., Nelson, P. C., and Carney, L. H. (2009). "A phenomenological model of the synapse between the inner hair cell and auditory nerve: Long-term adaptation with power-law dynamics," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 126(5):2390–2412.

Bruce, I. C. (2009). "Evaluation of stochastic differential equation approximation of ion channel gating models," Annals of Biomedical Engineering 37(4):824–838.

Zilany, M. S. A. and Bruce, I. C. (2007). "Representation of the vowel /e/ in normal and impaired auditory nerve fibers: Model predictions of responses in cats," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122(1):402–417.

Bruce, I. C. (2007). "Implementation issues in approximate methods for stochastic Hodgkin–Huxley models," Annals of Biomedical Engineering 35(2):315–318.

Dominguez, M., Becker, S., Bruce, I., and Read, H. (2006) "A spiking neuron model of cortical correlates of sensorineural hearing loss: Spontaneous ring, synchrony and tinnitus," Neural Computation 18(12):2942– 2958.

Zilany, M. S. A. and Bruce, I. C. (2006). "Modeling auditory-nerve responses for high sound pressure levels in the normal and impaired auditory periphery," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 120(3):1446–1466.

Mustafa, K., and Bruce I. C. (2006). "Robust formant tracking for continuous speech with speaker variability," IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 14(2):435–444.

Chen, Z., Becker, S., Bondy, J., Bruce, I., and Haykin, S. (2005). "A novel, gradient-free optimization method for model-based hearing compensation," Neural Computation 17(12):2648–2671.

Bruce, I. C. (2004). "Physiological assessment of contrast-enhancing frequency shaping and multiband compression in hearing aids," Physiological Measurement 25:945–956.

Bondy, J., Becker, S., Bruce, I. C., Trainor, L. J., and Haykin, S. (2004). "A novel signal-processing strategy for hearing-aid design: Neurocompensation," Signal Processing 84(7):1239–1253.

Trainor, L. J., Sonnadara, R., Wiklund, K., Bondy, J., Gupta, S., Becker, S., Bruce, I. C., and Haykin, S. (2004) "Development of a flexible, realistic, hearing in noise test environment (R-HINT-E),” Signal Processing 84(2):299–309.

Bruce, I. C., Sachs, M. B., and Young, E. D. (2003). "An auditory-periphery model of the effects of acoustic trauma on auditory nerve responses," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 113(1):369–388.

Heinz, M. G., Zhang, X., Bruce, I. C., and Carney, L. H. (2001). "Auditory nerve model for predicting performance limits of normal and impaired listeners," Acoustics Research Letters Online 2(3):91–96.

Zhang, X., Heinz, M. G., Bruce, I. C., and Carney, L. H. (2001). "A phenomenological model for the responses of auditory-nerve fibers: I. Nonlinear tuning with compression and suppression," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 109(2):648–670.

Bruce, I. C., Irlicht, L. S., White, M. W., O'Leary, S. J., and Clark, G. M. (2000). "Renewal-process approximation of a stochastic threshold model for electrical neural stimulation," Journal of Computational Neuroscience 9(2):119–132.

Bruce, I. C., White, M. W., Irlicht, L. S., O'Leary, S. J., and Clark, G. M. (1999). "The effects of stochastic neural activity in a model predicting intensity perception with cochlear implants: Low-rate stimulation," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 46(12):1393–1404.

Bruce, I. C., White, M. W., Irlicht, L. S., O'Leary, S. J., Dynes, S., Javel, E., and Clark, G. M. (1999). "A stochastic model of the electrically stimulated auditory nerve: Single-pulse response," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 46(6):617–629.

Bruce, I. C., Irlicht, L. S., White, M. W., O'Leary, S. J., Dynes, S., Javel, E., and Clark, G. M. (1999). "A stochastic model of the electrically stimulated auditory nerve: Pulse-train response," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 46(6):630–637.

Bruce, I. C., Irlicht, L. S., and Clark, G. M. (1998). "A mathematical analysis of spatiotemporal summation of auditory nerve firings," Information Sciences 111:303–334.

Au, D., Bruce, I. C., Irlicht, L. S., and Clark, G. M. (1995). "Cross-fibre interspike interval probability distribution in acoustic stimulation - A computer modelling study," Annals of Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology 104(Suppl. 166):346–349.

INVITED BOOK CHAPTERS AND REVIEW ARTICLES:

Bruce, I. C. (2010). "Advances in the design of hearing aids," in Biomedical Engineering Principles of the Bionic Man, ed. G. K. Hung, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, chapter 5, pp. 161–204.

Bruce, I. C. (2006). "Physiological insights into hearing loss and optimal amplification," Canadian Hearing Report 1(2):20–21.

Bruce, I. C. (2006). "Hearing Aids," in Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, eds. G. Wnek and G. Bowlin, Marcel Dekker, New York, NY.

Sachs, M. B., Bruce, I. C., Miller, R. L., and Young, E. D. (2002). "Biological Basis of Hearing-Aid Design," Annals of Biomedical Engineering 30:157–168.

Bruce, I. C., White, M. W., Irlicht, L. S., O'Leary, and Clark, G. M. (2001). "Advances in computational modeling of cochlear implant physiology and perception," in Computational Models of Auditory Function, eds. S. Greenberg and M. Slaney, IOS Press, Amsterdam, pp. 65–76.

PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PAPERS:

Ibrahim, R. A. and Bruce, I. C. (2010). "Effects of peripheral tuning on the auditory nerve's representation of speech envelope and temporal fine structure cues," in The Neurophysiological Bases of Auditory Perception, eds. E. A. Lopez-Poveda, A. R. Palmer, and R. Meddis, Springer, NY, chapter 40, pp. 429–438.

Zheng, X., Giang, A., Vetsis, S., Bruce, I. C. and Voigt, H. F. (2008). "A computational modeling study of the effects of acoustic trauma on the dorsal cochlear nucleus," in Proceedings of 4th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (ECIFMBE 2008), Vol. 22, Antwerp, Belgium, pp. 2695–2698.

Dinath, F. and Bruce, I. C. (2008). "Hearing aid gain prescriptions balance restoration of auditory nerve mean-rate and spike-timing representations of speech," in Proceedings of 30th International IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 1793–1796.

Negm, M. H. and Bruce, I. C. (2008). "Effects of Ih and IKLT on the response of the auditory nerve to electrical stimulation in a stochastic Hodgkin–Huxley model," in Proceedings of 30th International IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 5539–5542.

Vetsis, S., Zheng, X., Voigt, H. F. and Bruce, I. C. (2008). "Effects of an improved auditory-periphery model on the response properties of modeled neurons in the dorsal cochlear nucleus," in Proceedings of 30th International IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 2477–2480.

Bruce, I. C. and Zilany, M. S. A. (2007). "Computational modelling of the cat auditory periphery: Recent developments and future directions," in Proceedings of 19th International Congress on Acoustics, Madrid, Spain, September 2007, pp. PPA-07-004-IP: 1–6.

Bruce, I. C. and Zilany, M. S. A. (2007). "Modelling the effects of cochlear impairment on the neural representation of speech in the auditory nerve and primary auditory cortex," in Auditory Signal Processing in Hearing-Impaired Listeners, Int. Symposium on Audiological and Auditory Research (ISAAR), eds. T. Dau, J. Buchholz, J. M. Harte, and T. U. Christiansen, Danavox Jubilee Foundation, Denmark, pp. 1–10.

Bruce, I. C., Dinath, F. and Zeyl, T. J. (2007). "Insights into optimal phonemic compression from a computational model of the auditory periphery," in Auditory Signal Processing in Hearing-Impaired Listeners, Int. Symposium on Audiological and Auditory Research (ISAAR), eds. T. Dau, J. Buchholz, J. M. Harte, and T. U. Christiansen, Danavox Jubilee Foundation, Denmark, pp. 73–81.

Bruce, I. C. (2007). "Evaluation of approximate stochastic Hodgkin–Huxley models," in Proceedings of 3rd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 654–658.

Zilany, M. S. A., and Bruce, I. C. (2007). "Predictions of Speech Intelligibility with a Model of the Normal and Impaired Auditory-periphery," in Proceedings of 3rd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, IEEE, Piscatway, NJ, pp. 481–485.

Harte, N., Ansari, S. U., and Bruce, I. (2006). "Exploiting voicing cues for contrast enhanced frequency shaping of speech for impaired listeners," in Proceedings of 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2006), Vol. 5, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. V-137–V-140.

Bruce, I. C., Ansari, S. U., Bajaj, H. S., and Mustafa, K. (2004). "Multiband compression and contrast-enhancing frequency shaping in hearing aids," in Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Conference of the Canadian Acoustical Association, Ottawa, Ontario, October 2004.

Bondy, J., Bruce, I. C., Becker, S., and Haykin, S. (2004). "Machine learning and the auditory nerve," in Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Conference of the Canadian Acoustical Association, Ottawa, Ontario, October 2004.

Bondy, J., Bruce, I. C., Becker, S., and Haykin, S. (2004). "Predicting speech intelligibility from a population of neurons," in NIPS 2003 Conference Proceedings: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16, eds. S. Thrun, L. Saul and B. Schölkopf, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 1409–1416.

Bondy, J., Bruce, I. C., Dong, R., Becker, S., and Haykin, S. (2003). "Modeling intelligibility of hearing-aid compression circuits," in Conference Records of the Thirty-Seventh Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Vol. 1, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 720–724.

Bruce, I. C., Bajaj, H. S., and Ko, J. (2003). "Lateral-inhibitory-network models of tinnitus," in Proceedings of the 5th IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 359–363.

Mustafa, K. and Bruce, I. C. (2003). "Robust formant tracking for continuous speech with speaker variability," in Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (ISSPA 2003), Paris, France, Vol. 2, pp. 623–624.

Bruce, I. C., Karkhanis, N. V., Young, E. D., and Sachs, M. B. (2002). "Robust formant tracking in noise," in Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2002), Orlando, Florida, Vol. I, pp. 281–284.

Bruce, I. C., White, M. W., Irlicht, L. S., O'Leary, and Clark, G. M. (1998). "Advances in computational modeling of cochlear implant physiology and perception," in Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Computational Hearing, eds. S. Greenberg and M. Slaney, Il Ciocco, Tuscany, pp. 31–36.

Bruce, I. C., Irlicht, L. S., White, M. W., O'Leary, S. J., Dynes, S., Javel, E., and Clark, G. M. (1997). "An improved model of electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve," in Cochlear Implants. Proceedings of XVI World Congress of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, ed. G. M. Clark, Monduzzi Editore, Bologna, pp. 125–130.

Irlicht, L. S., Bruce, I. C., and Clark, G. M. (1996). "A Multi-Threshold Neural Network for Frequency Estimation," in Proceedings of the Seventh Australian Conference on Neural Networks, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, pp. 195–200.

Bruce, I. C., Irlicht, L. S., and Clark, G. M. (1995). "A mathematical analysis of sound coding in the auditory nerve: Spatiotemporal summing mechanisms," in Proceedings of the Second Annual Joint Conference on Information Sciences, Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, pp. 296–299.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS:

Bruce, I. C.. "Physiologically-based predictors of speech intelligibility," at UC Berkeley 'Ear Club' Seminar Series, Berkeley, California, October 2010.

Bruce, I. C.. "Modeling of the auditory periphery for hearing aid evaluation and design," at Starkey Hearing Research Center Seminar, Berkeley, California, October 2010.

Bruce, I. C.. "The problem of temporal coding in cochlear implants," at Bionic Ear Institute Seminar, Melbourne, Australia, June 2010.

Bruce, I. "Modeling of the auditory periphery for hearing aid evaluation and design," at 159th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Special Session on Application of Auditory Models to Hearing Aids, Baltimore, MD, April 2010.

Nelson, P., Zilany, M., Bruce, I., and Carney L. (2010). "A phenomenological model of the auditory nerve: Long-term adaptation with power-law dynamics in the IHC-AN synapse," at 33nd ARO Midwinter Meeting, Anaheim, CA, February 2010.

Bruce, I. (2010). "Modeling temporal response properties of electrically-stimulated auditory nerve fibers," at 33nd ARO Midwinter Meeting, Anaheim, CA, February 2010.

Bruce, I. C.. "A physiological basis for hearing aid gain prescriptions," at Bionic Ear Institute Seminar, Melbourne, Australia, November 2009.

Bruce, I. C.. "Building the perfect hearing aid — Why we're not there yet," at MERIT Biomedical Engineering Seminar, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, September 2009.

Bruce, I. C.. "Evaluation of stochastic dierential equation approximation of ion channel gating models," at Mathematical Biology Seminar, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, March 2009.

Bruce, I. C.. "Biomedical engineering approaches to studying and treating hearing loss," at Audio Engineering Society—Toronto Chapter, Visit to McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind, Hamilton, ON, November 2008.

Bruce, I. C., Zilany, M. S. A., Negmm, M. H., Nelson, P. C., and Carney, L. H. "Auditory nerve adaptation to acoustic and electric stimulation: Models and mechanisms," at Bionic Ear Institute Seminar, Melbourne, Australia, May 2008.

Bruce, I. C., Dinath, F., and Zeyl, T. J. "Hearing aid gain prescriptions balance restoration of auditory nerve mean-rate and spike-timing representations of speech," at Dynamic Hearing Pty Ltd Seminar, Melbourne, Australia, May 2008.

Bruce, I. C. "Engineering approaches to understanding and treating hearing loss," at Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, September 2007.

Bruce, I. C. "Stochastic ion channel gating in the auditory nerve: Models and implications," at Workshop on Mathematical Neuroscience, Centre de recherches mathématiques, Université de Montréal, Québec, September 2007.

Bruce, I. C. "Understanding tinnitus," at At Canadian Hard of Hearing Association—Hamilton Chapter, Annual General Meeting, Hamilton, ON, October 2006.

Bruce, I. C. "Engineering better hearing? Engineering and ethics in studying and treating hearing loss," at Redeemer University College, NSERC Faculty Colloquium, Hamilton, ON, November 2005.

Bondy, J. and Bruce, I. "Cochlear nonlinearities and temporal neural clues," at Auditory Temporal Processing Symposium, University of Toronto at Mississauga, ON, May 2005.

Bondy, J. and Bruce, I. " From neurons to hearing aids," at Auditory Temporal Processing Symposium, University of Toronto at Mississauga, ON, May 2005.

Bruce, I. "How lab researchers can interact with industrial partners," at Auditory Temporal Processing Symposium, University of Toronto at Mississauga, ON, May 2005.

Bruce, I. C. "Hope for better hearing? Engineering approaches to studying and treating hearing loss," at Hamilton Spectator “Science in the City” Lecture Series, Hamilton, ON, November 2004.

Young, E., Ji, T., Bruce, I., and Heinz, M. "What about the consonants?" at IHCON 2004 International Hearing Aid Research Conference, Lake Tahoe, CA, August 2004.

Bondy, J., Bruce, I., Becker, S., and Haykin, S. "Auditory nerve clues for hearing aid algorithms," at IHCON 2004 International Hearing Aid Research Conference, Lake Tahoe, CA, August 2004.

Bruce, I. C. "Applications of bioengineering to hearing and hearing loss," at Bioengineering at McMaster Society (BEAMS) Wine and Cheese Night, Hamilton, ON, January 2004.

Bruce, I. C. "Neural processing of complex acoustic stimuli: What happens when things go wrong?" at Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Workshop on Neural Processing of Complex Acoustic Stimuli, Whistler, BC, December 2003.

Bruce, I. C. "Intelligent Hearing Aids," at 18th Annual Seminars on Audition, Markham, Ontario, March 2003.

Bruce, I. C. "Speech information processing in the human ear and brain," at IEEE Hamilton Section Annual General Meeting, Hamilton, ON, December 2002.

Bruce, I. C., Sachs, M. B., and Young, E. D. "Physiological modeling for hearing aid design," at 143rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Special Session on Hearing Aid Design: Psychophysics and Signal Processing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 2002.

Bruce, I. C. "Speech information processing in the human ear and brain: Biomedical engineering approaches to studying and treating hearing loss," at Barber-Gennum Symposium, Hamilton, ON, May 2002.

Becker, S., and Bruce, I. C. "Neural coding in the auditory periphery: Insights from physiology and modelling lead to a novel hearing compensation algorithm," at 2002 Neural Information Coding (NICE) Workshop , Les Houches, France, March 2002.

Bruce, I. C. "Physiological insights into hearing aid design: Reversing plasticity due to sensorineural hearing loss?" at CIHR Workshop on Human Neural Plasticity, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, February 2001.

Bruce, I. C. "Physiological experiments and modeling for hearing aid design," 1st McMaster-Gennum Workshop on Intelligent Hearing­Aid Systems, Lake Louise, Alberta, October 2000.

Young, E. D., Ji, T., Bruce, I. C., and Sachs, M. B. "Insights into hearing aid signal processing from the neural representation of speech " at IHCON 2000 International Hearing Aid Research Conference, Lake Tahoe, CA, August 2000.

Bruce, I. C., White, M. W., Irlicht, L. S., O'Leary, S. J., and Clark, G. M. "Advances in relating cochlear implant physiology and psychophysics," 1999 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California, August 1999.

CONTRIBUTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

Ibrahim, R., and Bruce, I. (2011). "The interaction of envelope and temporal fine structure cues in speech perception," in Abstracts of the 34th ARO Midwinter Research Meeting.

Bruce, I. C. (2010). "The problems of inner-hair-cell impairment for hearing aid gain prescriptions," at International Hearing Aid Research Conference (IHCON 2010), Lake Tahoe, CA, August 2010.

Zeyl, T. J., and Bruce, I. C. (2010). "Correcting for impaired auditory nerve fiber group delays could improve some features of the spatiotemporal discharge pattern," at International Hearing Aid Research Conference (IHCON 2010), Lake Tahoe, CA, August 2010.

Spencer, M. J., Bruce, I. C., Grayden, D. B., Meffin, H., and Burkitt, A. N. (2010). "Temporal properties of dendritic processing in octopus cells of the posteroventral cochlear nucleus," at 30th Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society, in conjunction with the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Australian Physiological Society (ANS/AuPS 2010), Sydney, Australia, January–February 2010.

Bruce, I. C., and Negm, M. H. (2009). "IKLT and Ih may explain rapid and short-term spike-rate adaptation in auditory nerve fiber responses to cochlear implant stimulation," in Abstracts of the 32nd ARO Midwinter Research Meeting.

Leung, B., and Bruce, I. (2008). "Physiological assessment of nonlinear hearing aid amplification schemes," at International Hearing Aid Research Conference (IHCON 2008), Lake Tahoe, CA, August 2008.

Dinath, F., and Bruce, I. C. (2008). "Hearing aid gain prescriptions balance restoration of auditory nerve mean-rate and spike-timing representations of speech," at International Hearing Aid Research Conference (IHCON 2008), Lake Tahoe, CA, August 2008.

Negm, M. H., and Bruce, I. C. (2008). "Effects of Ih and IKLT in a stochastic Hodgkin–Huxley auditory nerve model," in Abstracts of the 31st ARO Midwinter Research Meeting.

Dinath, F., and Bruce, I. C. (2007). "Neurophysiological insights into hearing aid amplification schemes," at Workshop on Mathematical Neuroscience, Centre de recherches mathématiques, Université de Montréal, Québec, September 2007.

Negm, M. H., and Bruce, I. C. (2007). "A computational model for stochastic ion channels in the auditory nerve," at Workshop on Mathematical Neuroscience, Centre de recherches mathématiques, Université de Montréal, Québec, September 2007.

Zilany, M., and Bruce, I. (2007). "Predictions of speech intelligibility with a model of the normal and impaired auditory-periphery," in Abstracts of the 30th ARO Midwinter Research Meeting.

Wiklund, K., Haykin, S., and Bruce, I. (2006). "VirtualHearing: A Virtual Acoustic Environment for the Evaluation of Hearing Aid Algorithms," in Abstracts of the IHCON 2006 International Hearing Aid Research Conference.

Bruce, I. C. and Dinath, F. (2006). "Improved approximation of stochastic ion channel gating," in Abstracts of the 9th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Related Sciences (CI-2006), Vienna, Austria, pp. 87–88.

Yang, L., Becker, S., Bruce, I., Wilson, H., and Eggermont, J. (2006). "A computational model of primary auditory cortex with homeostatic plasticity after peripheral hearing loss," at XXVIIIth International Symposium: Computational Neuroscience, Montreal, QC, May 2006.

Bruce, I. C. and Ko, J. (2006). "A comparison of possible neural architectures for tuning curve enhancement in the inferior colliculus," in Abstracts of 29th ARO Midwinter Meeting, Baltimore, MD, February 2006.

Bruce, I. and Ko, J. (2005). "Modeling neural circuits for tuning curve enhancement in the auditory midbrain," at Lake Ontario Auditory Neuroscience (LOAN) Meeting, Hamilton, ON.

Ansari, S., Harte, N., and Bruce, I. (2005). "Efficiently combining improved contrast-enhancing frequency shaping and multiband compression to enhance speech intelligibility in hearing aids," at Lake Ontario Auditory Neuroscience (LOAN) Meeting, Hamilton, ON.

Bondy, J., Becker, S., Haykin, S., and Bruce, I. (2005). "Cochlear nonlinearities and temporal neural clues," at Lake Ontario Auditory Neuroscience (LOAN) Meeting, Hamilton, ON.

Dominguez, M., Becker, S., Bruce, I., and Read, H. (2005). "Modelling cortical reorganization in tinnitus," at Lake Ontario Auditory Neuroscience (LOAN) Meeting, Hamilton, ON.

Zilany, M. S. A. and Bruce, I. (2005). " Effects of high sound pressure levels in a model of the normal and impaired auditory periphery," at Lake Ontario Auditory Neuroscience (LOAN) Meeting, Hamilton, ON, June 2005.

Dominguez, M., Becker, S., Bruce, I., Read, H. (2005). "Modelling cochleotopic map shifts in auditory cortex," at Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) 2005, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Zilany, M., and Bruce, I. (2005). "Effects of high sound pressure levels in a model of the normal and impaired auditory periphery," in Abstracts of the 28th ARO Midwinter Research Meeting.

Ansari, S., Bajaj, H., Mustafa, K., and Bruce, I. (2004). "Time efficient contrast-enhancing frequency shaping and multiband compression in hearing aids," in Abstracts of the IHCON 2004 International Hearing Aid Research Conference.

Dong, R., Bondy, J., Bruce, I., and Haykin, S. (2004). "Single-microphone speech enhancement using speech stream segregation," in Abstracts of the IHCON 2004 International Hearing Aid Research Conference.

Zilany, M., and Bruce, I. (2004). "Improvements to a physiological model used for hearing aid evaluation and design," in Abstracts of the IHCON 2004 International Hearing Aid Research Conference.

Young, E., Heinz, M., Bandyopadhyay, S., Ji, T., and Bruce, I. (2004). "What about the consonants?" in Abstracts of the 27th ARO Midwinter Research Meeting.

Ko, J. and Bruce, I. C. (2004). "Lateral-Inhibitory-Network Models of the Central Processing of Auditory Nerve Activity," in Abstracts of the 27th ARO Midwinter Research Meeting.

Ko, J. and Bruce, I. C. (2004). "Lateral-Inhibitory-Network Models of the Central Processing of Auditory Nerve Activity," in Abstracts of papers presented at the 2004 Meeting on Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE).

Bruce, I. C. (2003). "Physiological assessment of contrast-enhancing frequency shaping and multiband compression in hearing aids," in Proceedings of the 2003 World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (IFBME Proceedings Vol. 4), Sydney, Australia.

Bruce, I. C. (2003). "Physiological modeling for the treatment of hearing loss and tinnitus," at 4th Bi-annual Lake Ontario Auditory Meeting, Rochester, NY.

Bruce, I. C., Young, E. D., and Sachs, M. B. (2002). "Physiological modeling for hearing aid design," in Abstracts of the IHCON 2002 International Hearing Aid Research Conference.

Bruce, I. C., Bondy, J., Haykin, S., and Becker, S. (2002). "A physiologically based predictor of speech intelligibility," in Abstracts of the IHCON 2002 International Hearing Aid Research Conference.

Bondy, J., Lopez-Risueqo, G., Haykin, S., Bruce, I. C., and Becker, S. (2002). "Automatic identification and individualized phonemic processing," in Abstracts of the IHCON 2002 International Hearing Aid Research Conference.

Bruce, I. C., Karkhanis, N. V., Young, E. D., and Sachs, M. B. (2001). "Design and physiological testing of dynamic formant enhancement for hearing aids," in Abstracts of the 24th ARO Midwinter Meeting.

Bruce, I. C., Young, E. D., and Sachs, M. B. (2000). "Physiological modeling for hearing aid design," in Abstracts of the IHCON 2000 International Hearing Aid Research Conference.

Young, E. D., Ji, T., Bruce, I. C., and Sachs, M. B. (2000). "Insights into hearing aid signal processing from the neural representation of speech," in Abstracts of the IHCON 2000 International Hearing Aid Research Conference.

Bruce, I. C., Young, E. D., and Sachs, M. B. (2000). "Improvements of an auditory-periphery model to describe auditory nerve response to speech stimuli," in Abstracts of the 23rd ARO Midwinter Meeting.

Ji, T., Bruce, I.C., Ngan, E.M., May, B.J., Sachs, M. B., and Young, E.D. (2000). "Representation of a dynamic speech stream in cats with sensorineural hearing loss," in Abstracts of the 23rd ARO Midwinter Meeting.

Bruce, I. C., Young, E. D., and Sachs, M. B. (2000). "Improvements of an auditory-periphery model to describe auditory nerve response to speech stimuli," in Symposium on Synaptic Function in Hearing and Balance, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, June 2000.

Bruce, I. C., Young, E. D., and Sachs, M. B. (1999). "Modification of an auditory-periphery model to describe the effects of acoustic trauma on auditory nerve response," in Abstracts of the 22nd ARO Midwinter Meeting.

Bruce, I. C., White, M. W., Irlicht, L. S., O’Leary, S. J., and Clark, G. M. (1998). "Perceptual effects of neural noise in functional electrical stimulation," in Abstracts of the 29th NIH Neural Prosthesis Workshop.

Bruce, I. C., Irlicht, L. S., White, M. W., O’Leary, S. J., Dynes, S., Javel, E. and Clark, G. M. (1997). "A stochastic model of the electrically stimulated auditory nerve designed for the analysis of large-scale population response," in Abstracts of the 20th ARO Midwinter Meeting.

Bruce, I. C., Irlicht, L. S., White, M. W., O’Leary, S. J. and Clark, G. M. (1997). "Electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve: Prediction of psychophysical performance by a model including stochastic aspects of neural response," in Abstracts of the 20th ARO Midwinter Meeting.

O'Leary, S. J., Irlicht, L. S., Bruce, I. C., White, M. W., and Clark, G. M. (1997). "Prediction of variance in neural response to cochlear implant stimulation and its implications for perception," in XVI World Congress of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, IFOS, Sydney, March 1997.

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