Current Lab Members
David M. Landsberger
David M. Landsberger received his Bachelor degree in Psychology at Brandeis University in 1995. He received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Brown University in 2001 for his work in color psychophysics. His training with cochlear implants (and the Auditory system) began working as a postdoctoral researcher with Colette McKay first at the University of Melbourne in Australia and then at Aston University in Birmingham, England. In 2007, moved to Los Angeles to work with Bob Shannon at the House Ear Institute. While at the House Ear Institute, he rose through the ranks to become an independent principal investigator running his own laboratory. In 2013, he joined the Department of Otolaryngology at the New York University School of Medicine. His primary interest is to understand how reshaping the electric fields in the cochlea can provide better spectral resolution (and therefore better speech performance in noise) in cochlear implant patients. Other topics of interest include understanding the relative contributions of spectral and temporal cues to auditory processing, the function of the cochlear apex, as well as bilateral integration with combined electric and acoustic stimulation. He has been working on using this information to develop new sound processing strategies to provide improved sound quality, speech in noise understanding, and information transfer to cochlear implant users.
Monica Padilla
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Monica Padilla is a Research Scientist working as part of the EAR Lab at the University of Southern California (USC). Monica obtained her Bachelor degree in Electric Engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia) and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering at USC. Her dissertation work investigated the perception of spectrally degraded speech by bilingual listeners as a function of age of immersion in the second language. Her Ph.D. mentor was Bob Shannon at the House Ear Institute. She held post-doctoral positions with Norberto Gryzwacz at the USC Visual Processing Lab and later with Bob Shannon. Monica presently works on current shaping strategies to improve the spectral information delivered to cochlear implant users. She is also interested in the differences in processing spectral information by pre-lingually implanted children and post-lingually implanted adults as a result of the different auditory developments in these two populations.
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Roozbeh Soleymani
Roozbeh Soleymani joined EARLab in 2015. He is a Ph.D. student in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Tehran Polytechnic and NYU Tandon School of engineering respectively. His research interests are in audio processing and machine learning. He is currently working on a new algorithm for real time speech enhancement in cochlear implant devices. His interests outside of academia include traveling, cooking and watching movies.
Emily Spitzer
Emily Spitzer is a research audiologist who joined the lab in June 2018. Emily splits her time between the EARLab and the Cochlear Implant Center. She received a Bachelor of Sciences degree from Northwestern University in 2013 and a Doctorate of Audiology from University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill in 2018. As part of her AuD program, Emily completed an NIH funded T-35 traineeship at Boys Town National Research Hospital. Emily's research interests include auditory development and electrophysiology. Outside of research, she enjoys hiking and playing with her dog.
Natalia Stupak
Natalia Stupak is a research audiologist, who joined EARLab in July, 2014. Her primary responsibilities include recruitment for research, data collection, as well as maintaining organization and sanity within the lab. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Communication Disorders from The State University of New York- New Paltz in 2008 and her Doctor of Audiology from Montclair State University in 2014. She completed her fourth year externship at Westchester Institute for Human Development (WIHD) where she also participated in the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disorders (LEND) trainee program. She holds a New York state audiology license and is also a member of the American Academy of Audiology. Her hobbies include eating all the food and loving all the animals.
David Friedmann
David R Friedmann, MD is a board certified neurotologist and cochlear Implant surgeon at NYU. His research interests include cochlear implant outcomes in special populations and music perception with cochlear implants.
David is a musician and a fan of all music that grooves and hopes to bring that same enjoyment to CI patients.
David is a musician and a fan of all music that grooves and hopes to bring that same enjoyment to CI patients.
Lab Alumni
Ann E. Todd
Ann Todd is a postdoctoral fellow working with David Landsberger in the Department of Otolaryngology at New York University School of Medicine. Ann obtained her Master’s degree in Speech, Language, and Hearing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She completed her PhD in the department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a PhD student, she worked with Ruth Litovsky in the Binaural Hearing and Speech Lab. Her primary interests include pitch perception and binaural hearing in normal-hearing listeners and listeners with cochlear implants. Her current research focuses on understanding the effect of place of stimulation within the cochlea on the use of temporal pitch and the effect of current amplitude on place pitch in listeners with cochlear implants.
Jacob Taylor
Jacob Taylor is an undergraduate student at Southwestern University working in the EAR Lab for the summer. He will graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology in the Fall of 2017. He intends to pursue a career in auditory research and is presently investigating if a Ph.D or Au.D. is the appropriate path for his career interests. He is primarily interested in studying how inner hair cells convey information as well as improving sound coding in cochlear implants.
Although he was only with us for a summer, he made a big impact on the group. While he was with us, he helped Natalia collect a bunch of data and worked on one of Roozbeh's experiments. Perhaps most impressively, he came up with his own question, designed and ran the experiment. Data is interesting, too. Hopefully we will get to share it with everyone soon.
Although he was only with us for a summer, he made a big impact on the group. While he was with us, he helped Natalia collect a bunch of data and worked on one of Roozbeh's experiments. Perhaps most impressively, he came up with his own question, designed and ran the experiment. Data is interesting, too. Hopefully we will get to share it with everyone soon.
Arthi Srinivasan
