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Heinz Lab members Annika Schenkel and Isabella “Bella” Huddleston, both third-year AuD students, presented their capstone projects at the Purdue SLHS Ringel Symposium on December 17, 2025. This annual event provides a platform for second-year SLP students and third-year AuD students to showcase their research.

Dr.Heinz and colleagues organized a special session titiled "Relating Spectrotemporal Modulation to Clinical Speech Tests: Physiology, Modeling, and Perception " at the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Fall 2025 Meeting in Hawaii, bringing together physiological, computational, and clinical perspectives on spectrotemporal modulation and speech processing. As part of the session, postdoctoral fellow Afagh Farhadi presented updated Heinz Lab work providing mechanistic insights into spectrotemporal modulation coding from single-unit auditory nerve recordings.

Two Heinz Lab members have been invited to present their work at the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Spring 2026 Meeting in Philadelphia. PhD student Fernando Aguilera de Alba and Postdoctoral Fellow Afagh Farhadi will share their research in a trainee-focused special session, with ASA travel awards supporting both presentations.

The Heinz Lab is excited to highlight a significant milestone by Prasad Shivaji Darveshi, who successfully defended his Master’s thesis in Computer & Information Technology, contributing impactful approaches for automated ABR analysis.

Congratulations to Madhurima Patra and Fernando Aguilera De Alba, Ph.D. students in the Heinz Lab, on receiving ARO 2026 MidWinter Meeting Travel Awards!

We are pleased to welcome John Love Zedek, a new PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, to the Auditory Neurophysiology and Modeling Lab.

We’re excited to welcome A.J. Olliff, who has joined our lab as an AuD student in the SLHS Department at Purdue University!

Fernando has officially passed his PhD Preliminary Examination in Biomedical Engineering!

Last week, we paused experiments to focus on something just as critical ; our team focused on key improvements to make the lab run more efficiently and our research more impactful