Former members of the Auditory Engineering Lab:

Timothy J. Zeyl (email: timothyzeyl@gmail.com)
  • Completed M.A.Sc. in ECE; Project: Model-based hearing aid algorithms
  • Now a Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering
Stephen Vetsis (email: Stephen.Vetsis@oeb.gov.on.ca)
  • Completed M.A.Sc. in ECE; Project: Modeling of the effects of hearing loss on neural responses in the auditory brainstem
  • Now a Policy Analyst for Regulatory Policy and Compliance at the Ontario Energy Board, Toronto, ON
Mohammad H. Negm (email: negmmh@univmail.cis.mcmaster.ca)
  • Completed M.A.Sc. in BME; Project: Models of stochastic ion channel gating for cochlear implant stimulation
  • Now a Ph.D. student in ECE at McMaster
Faheem Dinath (email: dinathf@mcmaster.ca)
  • Completed M.A.Sc. in BME; Project: Model-based hearing aid amplification schemes
  • Now MBA student at McMaster School of Business
Benedict Leung (email: leungb@univmail.cis.mcmaster.ca)
  • Completed M.Eng. in Elec. & Biomed. Eng.; Project: Physiological assessment of hearing aid compression schemes
M. S. Arefeen Zilany, Ph.D. (Zilany) (email: msazilany@gmail.com)
  • Completed Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Fellowship in ECE; Project: Normal and impaired models of the auditory periphery
  • Now a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
Melissa Perri
  • NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award student; Project: Algorithms for modelling stochastic ion channel gating
  • Now is Manager of Clinical and Regulatory Affairs at Mespere Lifesciences Inc., Kitchener, ON
Jeff Bondy, Ph.D. (email: jp_bondy@hotmail.com)
  • Completed Ph.D. in ECE; Project: Modeling auditory perception in normal and hearing-impaired listeners
  • Now a DSP Engineer at ON Semiconductor, Waterloo, ON
Naomi Harte, Ph.D. (web page: http://www.mee.tcd.ie/~naharte)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow; Project: Combining frequency shaping and compression in hearing aids
  • Now a Lecturer in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Shahabuddin (Shahab) Ansari (email: sansari@giki.edu.pk; web page: http://www.giki.edu.pk/Academics/Undergraduate/Faculty of CS/FacultyDetail.php?un=shahab)
  • Completed M.A.Sc. in ECE; Project: Combining frequency shaping and compression in hearing aids
  • Now a Research Associate & Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at the GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
Jennifer Ko, LL.B. (email: Jennifer.Ko@Dal.Ca)
  • Completed M.A.Sc. and was awarded a Certificate of Excellence by the ECE Department for an outstanding thesis; Project: Lateral-inhibitory-network processing of spontaneous and speech-driven neural activity
  • Intellectual Property Counsel, Morgan Solar Inc., Toronto, ON
Kamran Mustafa (email: m.kamran@UNB.ca; web page: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kamranmustafa)
  • Completed M.A.Sc. in ECE; Project: Robust formant tracking in noise
  • Now a Team Lead - WLAN Systems Integration & IOT, Research In Motion, Ottawa, ON
Siddharth Das
  • Undergraduate Student; Project: Synthesis of realistic speech for evaluation of speech-feature estimation algorithms
Harjeet Bajaj (email: harj.bajaj@gmail.com)
  • Undergraduate Student; Project: Lateral-inhibitory-network models of tinnitus
  • Now a QI Consultant at the Ontario Health Quality Council
Dr.-Ing. Christoph P. Kallenberger (email: c_kallenberger@gmx.de; web page: http://www.xing.com/profile/Christoph_Kallenberger)
  • Undergraduate Student; Project: Models of convergent auditory-nerve input onto coincidence-detector neurons in the cochlear nucleus
  • Now a Development Engineer, Automobile Industry, Leonberg, Germany

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