Ian Bruce

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Dr. Ian C. Bruce

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

Director: Auditory Engineering Lab (AEL)
Director: Hearing Technology Research Lab (HTRL)
Executive Committee Member: LIVELab
Associate Member: Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour
Associate Member: Department of Computing & Software
Associate Member: McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Member: McMaster Institute for Music & the Mind
Associate Member: McMaster Neuroscience Graduate Program

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

Email: brucei@mcmaster.ca (or alias 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:

IBEHS 5P06B: Biomedical Capstone Design Project (Fall 2025 & Winter 2026)
ECE 796: Models of the Neuron (Winter 2026)

Past:

IBEHS 5P06B: Biomedical Capstone Design Project (Winter 2025)
IBEHS 3A03: Biomedical Signals and Systems (Fall 2025; Fall 2024; Fall 2022; Fall 2021; Fall 2020; Fall 2019)
ECE 797: Speech and Audio Processing (Winter 2022 & 2024 as ECE 769; Fall 2024; Fall 2022; Winter 2004; Winter 2003 as ECE 769)
ELEC ENG 4BB3: Cellular Bioelectricity (Winter 2023; Winter 2022; Winter 2021)
COMP ENG 2DX4: Microprocessor Systems Project (Winter 2020)
ELEC ENG 3BA3: Structure of Biological Materials (Fall 2018; Fall 2017; Fall 2015; Fall 2014; Fall 2013; Fall 2012; Fall 2011; Fall 2010; Fall 2008; Fall 2007; Fall 2006; Fall 2005; Fall 2004)
ELEC ENG 3BB3: Cellular Bioelectricity (Winter 2019; Winter 2018; Winter 2017; Winter 2016; Winter 2015; Winter 2013; Fall 2011; Winter 2011; Winter 2008; Winter 2007; Winter 2006; Winter 2005)
ECE 795: Quantitative Electrophysiology (Fall 2014; Fall 2013; Fall 2012; Fall 2010; Fall 2008; Fall 2007; Fall 2006)
ECE 796: Models of the Neuron (Winter 2022; Winter 2021; Winter 2019; Winter 2018; Winter 2017; Winter 2016; Winter 2015; Winter 2013; Winter 2011; Winter 2009; Winter 2008; Winter 2007; Fall 2005; Fall 2004; Fall 2002 - as ECE 768)
ELEC ENG 4CL4: Control System Design (Winter 2004; Winter 2003)
COE 4TL4: Digital Signal Processing (Fall 2003)

You may be interested in having a look at my:

Curriculum Vitae

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

NEWNew preprint in JARO: Yayli, M., and Bruce, I. C. (2026). "Effects of gap junctions and inhibition on the synchronization behavior of a biophysically detailed neural network model of bushy cells," accepted for publication in JARO.

NEWNew preprint in Ear & Hearing: Gao, Z., Yuan, Y., Oleson, J. J., Mueller, C. R., Bruce, I. C., Gifford, R. H.,, and He, S. (2026). "The relationships between cochlear nerve health and AzBio sentence scores in quiet and noise in postlingually deafened adult cochlear implant users," accepted for publication in Ear & Hearing.

Code: Updated version of the Zilany-Bruce-Carney labs' auditory-periphery model (Bruce et al., Hear. Res. 2018)

Code: Matlab code for the Negm–Bruce stochastic Hodgkin–Huxley auditory nerve models (Negm & Bruce IEEE TBME 2014)

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 Mustafa-Bruce Formant Tracker (Mustafa and Bruce, IEEE-TASLP 200s6)

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

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Created by Ian Bruce <brucei@mcmaster.ca> - last modified Wednesday, January 27, 2026