Baljeet Rana
Role: PhD Student
Bio
Baljeet is a PhD candidate at National Acoustic Laboratories and Macquarie University, commencing April 2014. He completed his Bachelors in speech and hearing in 2011, and Masters in Audiology in 2013 from All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH), University of Mysore, India. After that, he worked as an Audiologist Grade 1 at AIISH for seven months wherein he was involved in teaching clinical practicum, providing supervision and guidance to diploma students. Baljeet’s research areas of interest includes hearing aids, cochlear implants, psychoacoustics and electrophysiology.
PhD title
Spatial release from masking in hearing impaired listeners with hearing aids
PhD Project
Baljeet’s PhD research is focused on spatial release from masking (SRM) in hearing impaired listeners with hearing aids, under the supervision of Dr Jorg Buchholz and A/Prof Harvey Dillon. His PhD thesis would investigate the effect of audibility on SRM and then apply the results to improve SRM in hearing impaired subjects by optimising bilateral hearing aid amplification.
