Gerald R Popelka on Wearable Hearing Devices (Hearables)
Date:
Fri, 04/26/2019 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar Gerald Popelka is a professor in Otolaryngology here at Stanford and has been thinking about what might be possible around the ear. Many efforts towards better hearables have started here in Silicon Valley, and this will be a good opportunity to hear what has been done, what people are thinking about, and what is missing.
Who: Prof. Gerald Popelka (Stanford)
What: Wearable Hearing Devices (Hearables)
When: Friday April 26th at 10:30AM
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room, the top floor of the Knoll at Stanford
Why: The ears are a great place for technology
Bring your favorite ears to CCRMA and we’ll figure out some cool things to hang on them, or put into them. What would you like?
- Malcolm
Wearable Hearing Devices (Hearables)
Dr. Gerald R. Popelka (Stanford)
Wearable hearing devices or hearables are one of many rapidly developing types of wearable devices. Hearables have evolved from traditional hearing aids that already have many features applicable to the development of new hearables intended for everyone, not only those with hearing loss. This presentation will cover three stages of development including, hardware transition, the incorporation of new non-acoustic transducers and conversion to uses other than speech communication including both medical and consumer applications. The presentation will conclude with summary of the current state of the art for hearables including speculative future applications.
Bio:
Gerald R. Popelka obtained a PhD degree with an emphasis in neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin and completed a two year post doctoral research fellowship in Otolaryngology at UCLA. Prior to this he earned a masters degree in Audiology from Kent State University. He was a full professor at Washington University in St. Louis when in 2004 he came to Stanford as a faculty member in Otolaryngology and as Chief of Audiology. As PI for his research lab in Otolaryngology he initiated and completed successful collaborative research projects among diverse academic divisions including Otolaryngology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Radiology, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Popelka’s research covers both animal and human studies and has been funded continuously with grants from NIH and a wide variety of other agencies and philanthropic gifts.
Popelka is a co-inventor of the world’s first all digital hearing aid. The resulting patent forms the basis for virtually all hearing aids currently produced worldwide. He conceived and lead the development of JARO, the peer-reviewed Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology that launched in 2000 and now is recognized as the premier, high impact international auditory scientific research journal.
With over 130 publications, including peer-reviewed research articles, review articles, two college textbooks and a recently published book on hearing aid research, along with many research presentations and various achievement awards, he has an international reputation for creating and using leading-edge technology that addresses both basic science and clinical applications. He remains in the forefront of creating and developing innovative biomedical approaches focussed on several basic neuroscience issues. Currently his efforts are centered on creating and developing effective invasive and non-invasive radiologic imaging and neuromodulation intervention using acoustic, electrical and ultrasound stimuli for several chronic neurologic conditions including auditory disorders.
Popelka teaches in the Departments of Anatomy and Electrical Engineering. He also has other responsibilities within the medical school including the multidisciplinary Stanford Balance Center that he co-founded. His campus-wide responsibilities include pre-major undergraduate advising, membership on PhD Dissertation Committees and as a faculty member of the Advisory Council for the Stanford Center on Longevity.
Open to the Public