MEMBERS

Luz is in a PhD program in Systems Neuroscience at CMU. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Cal State, Northridge, followed by the National Institutes of Health Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (NIH-PREP) at Purdue University working in a systems neuroscience & neuroengineering lab. She has an interest in translational auditory neuroscience and is a dog turned cat lover!

Rachel completed her undergraduate bachelors degree in CSD at SUNY Fredonia. During her undergraduate studies, Rachel was a research assistant investigating Covid-19 Related Hearing Loss. Currently, she is pursuing her doctorate in Audiology at the University of Pittsburgh. In the future, Rachel aims to provide excellent patient care when working with diagnostics and amplification. Outside of school, she enjoys nature, art, and photography.

Olivia Flemm is a second-year AuD student in the lab. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Communication Science and Disorders with an economics minor at the University of Pittsburgh. She is interested in all aspects of audiology and enjoys learning how the clinical and research side of the field interact with one another . Outside of class, she likes spending time with her dog George!

Jen joined as a research technician in the lab after completing her undergraduate degree in Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh. Her future goals include medical or graduate school. She aspires to make discoveries that will make a difference in somebody’s life. When not in class, she can usually be found playing various video games, shopping, or reading books about death. If that doesn’t make you too uneasy, she’ll happily give you her gaming information to play sometime.

Assistant Professor,

Dept. of Communication Science and Disorders.

Pittsburgh Hearing Research Center

Dept. of Otolaryngology 

Dept. of BioEngineering

Aravind_Partha (at) pitt (dot) edu

Faculty profile

Aravind tries to do stuff as well. 

Viral is an undergraduate studying BioEngineering with a focus on medical devices and a minor in Computer Science. After he graduates he aims to work on medical devices for others as a cochlear implant helped him hear. Outside of classes he enjoys spending time with his friends and taking up any outdoor activity from spikeball to hiking.

My name is Amanda Yagan. I received my Bachelor of Arts in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences from the University of Connecticut. I am interested in the intersection of Neuroscience and Audiology and would love to tie both in my future work as an Audiologist. Outside of class and the research lab, I am an avid novel reader. I love going on hikes, cooking and participating in community engagement activities.

Leslie is a PhD student working with Drs. Pratt and Parthasarathy. He is interested in the time course of auditory learning and manipulations to optimize perceptual gains. An area of specific interest is how task-irrelevant auditory signals are acquired and processed.

Joy graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a minor in studio arts from the University of Pittsburgh. During that time, she was introduced to the field of audiology and its impact on people’s quality of life. She is currently enrolled in Pitt’s post-baccalaureate CSD program and plans on pursuing a doctorate in Audiology in the future. In the meantime, she doodles, reads, and experiments with fire (cooking).

Maggie is excited to expound upon her work with listening effort and related fatigue, hearing loss, and cognitive aging under the guidance of Drs. Parthasarathy and Chandrasekaran. On a larger scale, she hopes to do her part to help better understand the relationship between perceptual and cognitive decline. Maggie graduated from Saint Louis University in 2014 with degrees in Neuroscience and Music: Operatic Vocal Performance. Her passions include pub trivia, Thai takeout, concert photography, and idolizing Food Network stars (despite having no cooking abilities).