Congratulations to Stepp Lab undergraduate students Austeja Subaciute, Kat Kolin, Roxanne Segina, and Dante Cilento, who gave excellent poster presentations at the 2018 UROP symposium today!
Matti Groll qualifies for the Boston Marathon 2020!
Congratulations to Matti Groll for completing his first marathon on October 7th 2018 with a time of 2:48:44 and qualifying for the Boston Marathon 2020!
Dante Cilento to be inducted to the BU Scarlet Key Honor Society
Stepp Lab undergraduate research assistant Dante Cilento has been selected to be inducted to the BU Scarlet Key Honor Society! For 80 years, the Scarlet Key Honor Society has been the highest honor awarded to Boston University student leaders. Inductees are students in their senior year who have exhibited exceptional leadership among their peers during […]
Dr. Gabriel Cler successfully defends his dissertation!
Congratulations to Stepp Lab member Dr. Gabriel Cler for the successful defense of his dissertation “Computational Optimization and Prediction Strategies for Increasing Communicate Rate in Phoneme-Based Augmentative and Alternative Communication.” Fantastic work, Gabe!
Defne Abur selected to receive a Hariri Graduate Fellowship!
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Defne Abur for receiving a Hariri Graduate Fellowship! The Hariri Graduate Fellows Program recognizes outstanding PhD graduate students who pursue computational and data-driven research at Boston University.
New article in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
Our newest article, “Prediction of optimal facial electromyographic sensor configurations for human-machine interface control,” is available for open access! Check it out!
Austeja Subaciute ’20 wins Newton-Wellesley Hospital Auxiliary Scholarship!
Congratulations to Austeja Subaciute ’20, a biomedical engineering major on the pre-medical track, for receiving the Newton-Wellesley Hospital Auxiliary Scholarship today!
New article in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Check out our newly published article: “Loudness Perception of Pure Tones in Parkinson’s Disease” by Defne Abur, Ashling A. Lupiani, Ann E. Hickox, Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham, and Cara E. Stepp.
Jake Noordzij presents at the 2018 BME Senior Design Project Conference
On May 4th, the Stepp Lab researcher Jake Noordzij presented his work in collaboration with Haiyun Xu and Boston University’s Hearing Research Center at the annual Senior Design Project Conference. Their project, –entitled “Testing the Cortical Algorithm in Simulated Cocktail Party Environment”– focused on evaluating the effectiveness of a neural network model to mitigate the […]
Congratulations, Dr. McKenna!
Congrats to Dr. Victoria McKenna, who passed her dissertation defense entitled “The Relationship between Physiological, Acoustical, and Perceptual Measures of Vocal Effort.” She will be furthering her academic career as a post-doctoral researcher at Purdue University under the mentorship of Dr. Jessica Huber.