Mario A. Svirsky, Ph.D., professor of biomedical engineering and electrical engineering at Purdue and professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine, has been elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. The fellowship acknowledges his contributions to understanding speech perception in children and adults with cochlear implants.

Dr. Svirsky has published extensively on speech perception, speech production and language development, with a particular focus on cochlear implants. He currently serves as co-chair for the Conference of Implantable Auditory Prostheses and as editor-in-chief of the journal Ear and Hearing.

The Acoustical Society of America, consisting of about 7,000 members, was founded in 1929.