A laptop displays illustrations of an electrolarynx device

Yi Shen

Associate Professor

Director, SPHSC Bachelor of Science Program

shenyi@uw.edu
+1 206 543-6640
Personal Website
Eagleson 160
Research Lab
Applied Hearing Science Lab
Fields of Interest

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

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