ARI Guest Talk: 23 October 2023

The ARI Hearing Cluster invites Dietmar Wohlbauer (Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear in Boston, USA) to an ARI Guest Talk. Dietmar Wohlbauer will talk about "InterlACE Sound Coding for Bilateral Cochlear Implants". This work relates to the research focus on cochlear implants at the Acoustics Research Institute.

Present-day cochlear implant (CI) processing strategies impose limits on the amount of acoustic spectral information conveyed electrically to the available nerve fibers. Common signal coding restricts the number of available active electrodes and provides no synchronization or communication between bilateral processors. To counteract these restrictions, a novel approach, denoted as InterlACE, was developed and evaluated in human subjects.

Dietmar Wohlbauer earned his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Zürich (UZH), Switzerland, and the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI) in the field of Cochlear Implants (CIs). He then joined the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, as a postdoctoral researcher and teaching fellow and is now at the Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear in Boston, USA, to continue his research in CI processing and signal perception.