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Michael G. Heinz is an Associate Professor at Purdue University, with a joint appointment in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) and Biomedical Engineering (BME). He received an Sc.B. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brown University in 1992. He then completed a Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 1994, where, he performed psychoacoustical experiments measuring the ability of human listeners to detect signals in noise. In 2000, he received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology in the area of Speech and Hearing Sciences. His dissertation involved computational and theoretical model- ing to quantify the amount of information in auditory-nerve responses for psy- choacoustical tasks. His post-doctoral work was in Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where his work evaluated possible neural correlates of loudness recruitment by comparing neurophysiological responses from single auditory-nerve fibers in animals with normal hearing and noise-induced hearing loss. In 2005, he joined the faculty at Purdue as an Assistant Professor, where his lab has been investigating the relation between neurophysio- logical and perceptual responses to sound with normal and impaired hearing through the coordinated use of neurophysiology, computational modeling, and psychoacoustics. He teaches classes in both SLHS and BME. In 2010, he was elect- ed a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, and currently serves as Chair of the ASA Technical Committee on Psychological and Physiological Acoustics. In addition to ASA, he is also a member of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology and the Society for Neuroscience.
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