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Curriculum Vitae:
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
Office:
Eagleson 160
Yi Shen, Ph.D.
Yi
Shen
Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director, SPHSC Bachelor of Science Program
Education:
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Irvine, 2010-2014
Ph.D., Hearing Science, Indiana University Bloomington, 2010
M.Sc., Engineering Acoustics, Technical University of Denmark, 2006
B.Sc., Applied Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, 2003
Academic Expertise:
Understanding the mechanisms (cochlear, central, and cognitive) responsible for individual differences in the difficulties experienced by listeners with hearing loss
Determining why people with hearing loss experience variable benefit from assistive listening devices
Development of rapid assessment tools for application in the clinic
Construct and develop auditory models that can describe individual differences in speech perception
Courses Taught:
Recent Publications
Rapid Profiling of Loudness Among Older Adults. (2026 Jan 27) Ear Hear Shen Y, Petersen EA, Neely ST
Scene-Specific Self-Tuning of Hearing Aids Enhances Perceived Speech Quality. (2025 Dec 12) Am J Audiol 34(4): 966-979 Kurşun B, Chessik B, Cunio IE, Shen Y
Aging and the effect of background rhythm on selective listening in multiple-source environments. (2025 Nov) Hear Res 467(): 109389 Pearson DV, Shen Y, McAuley JD, Kidd GR
Synchrony perception of audiovisual speech is a reliable, yet individual construct. (2025 May 7) Sci Rep 15(1): 15909 Gijbels L, Lalonde K, Shen Y, Wallace MT, Lee AK
P300 as an index of speech-in-noise understanding in complex acoustic environments in young and older adults. (2025) Front Neurosci 19(): 1497781 Pearson DV, Shen Y, Hetrick WP, O'Donnell BF, Lundin NB, McAuley JD, Kidd GR