Meet the CILab
Featured Publications:
Hansen, J.H.L., Ali, H., Saba, J.N., M.C., R.C., Mamun, N., Ghosh, R., Brueggeman A.
(2019) “CCi-MOBILE: Design and evaluation of a cochlear implant and hearing aid
research platform for speech scientists and engineers,” in IEEE EMBS I
nternational Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI),
Chicago, IL, pp. 1-4. doi: 10.1109/BHI.2019.8834652.
Wang, D., Hansen, J.H.L. (2018) “Speech enhancement for cochlear implant
recipients,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(4): 2244-2254.
doi: 10.1121/1.5031112
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Featured Publications:
Saba, J.N., and Hansen, J.H.L. (2022). “The effects of Lombard perturbation on speech
intelligibility in noise for normal hearing and cochlear implant listeners,”
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151: 1007-1121. doi: 10.1121/10.0009377
Saba J.N., and Hansen J.H.L. (2022). “Speech Modification for Intelligibility in
Cochlear Implant Listeners: Individual Effects of Vowel- and Consonant-Boosting,”
Proceedings from INTERSPEECH, Incheon, Korea, September 18-22, 2022.
doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2022-11131
Saba, J.N., Ali, H., Hansen, J.H.L. (2018) “Formant priority channel selection
for an “n-of-m” sound processing strategy for cochlear implants,” The Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America, 144(6): 3371-3380. doi: 10.1121/1.5080257
Dissertation Title (Spring 2021): “Leveraging Landmark Acoustic Features in Cochlear Implant Signal Processing”
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Resume for Juliana Angell (Saba)
Dissertation Title (Fall 2021): “Non-linguistic Sound Analysis and Safety Evaluation Framework for Cochlear Implants”
Featured Publications:
Shekar, R.C.M.C., Hansen, J.H.L. (2022). "A convolutional neural network-based
framework for analysis and assessment of non-linguistic sound classification and
enhancement for normal hearing and cochlear implant listeners," Journal of the Acoustic
Society of America, 125(5): 2720-2737. doi: 10.1121/10.0014955.
Shekar, R.C.M.C., Hansen, J.H.L. (2021). “An evaluation framework for
research platforms to advance cochlear implant/hearing aid technology: A case study
with CCi-MOBILE,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149(1): 229-245.
doi: 10.1121/10.0002989
Charan, R.M.C., Ali, H., Hansen, J.H.L. (2018) “Testing paradigms for assistive
hearing devices in diverse acoustic environments,” in Proceedings from Annual
Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH),
Hyderabad, India, pp. 1686-1690. doi: 10.21437/interspeech.2018-1471
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Resume for Ram Charan Shekar
Dissertation Title (Summer 2023): “Deep Neural Network based Speech Enhancement for
Cochlear Implant Recipients”
Featured Publications:
Mamun, N., Ghosh, R., Hansen, J.H.L. (2023) "Familiar and unfamiliar speaker recognition
assessment and system emulation for cochlear implant users," Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, 153: 1293-1306. doi: 10.1121/10.0017216.
Mamun, N., Zilany, S.A. (2021) "An intrusive method for estimating speech intelligibility
from noisy and distorted signals". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150:1762-1778.
Mamun, N., Khorram, S., Hansen, J.H.L. (2019) “Convolutional Neural Network-based
Speech Enhancement for Cochlear Implant Recipients, INTERSPEECH 2019, 15-19 September 2019,
Graz, Austria.
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Resume for Nursadul Mamun
Dissertation Title: “Speech to Singing Conversion Using Generative Adversarial Networks”
Featured Publications:
Brueggeman, A., Hansen, J.H.L. (2020) "Effect of spectral complexity reduction
and number of instruments on musical enjoyment with cochlear implants." Proceedings from
Interspeech 2020, 4636-4640, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2020-3034
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Resume for Ava Brueggeman
Dissertation Title: In Progress
Featured Publications:
Younis, H., and Hansen, J.H.L. "Challenges in real-time-embedded IoT Command
Recognition," 2021 IEEE 7th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT),
New Orleans, LA, USA, 2021, pp. 848-851, doi: 10.1109/WF-IoT51360.2021.9595903.
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Resume for Hazem Younis
Dissertation Title: In Progress
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Resume for Samuel Okei
Dissertation Title: In Progress
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Resume for Taylor Lawson
CILab Alumni
Join Our Team
The Cochlear Implant Processing Laboratory at UT-Dallas currently has a post-doctoral position
avaliable in the area of assistive hearing devices and signal processing algorithmic development.
For more information about the position, see the posting below or email
[email protected].
Eligible canidiates should email their CV and areas of interest to Dr. John Hansen.
CILab Post-Doctoral Posting
Posted May 20, 2020 (Active as of September 2021)