NCA photo The Digital Signal Processing Laboratory at the National Centre for Audiology (NCA), conducts research in acoustic signal processing with applications in Audiology and Speech Language Pathology.

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Director

Vijay Parsa, PhD

Dr. Vijay Parsa is a Principal Investigator at the National Centre for Audiology, and an Assistant Professor in the  Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, and the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His current research focuses on development of hearing devices and measures of speech quality.

Students and Research Assistants

Sujay Sukumaran

Sujay is a 2nd M.E.Sc. student in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.  His thesis is concentrated on the application of subband adaptive filtering algorithms for dual channel speech enhancement.

Rob McDonald

Rob is a 2nd M.E.Sc. student in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.  His thesis is concerned with the application of nonintrusive speech quality measurement techniques to quantify the voice quality of persons with vocal disorders.

David Suelzle

 David is a 2nd M.E.Sc. student and an NSERC scholar in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.  His thesis is on the design and evaluation of binaural signal processing algorithms for hearing aid applications.

Stella Ng

Stella is an Audiologist who is working part-time in the DSP lab as a research associate.  Stella is currently coordinating a study on the assessment of feedback cancellation algorithms in digital hearing aids.  Stella holds an M.Sc. in Audiology from the University of Western Ontario.

Kari Gough

Kari works as a part-time research assistant in the DSP lab.  Kari finished her psychology undergraduate degree at the University of Western Ontario.  She is also part of the study on the assessment of feedback cancellation algorithms and is responsible for subject recruitment, hearing aid programming, and the perceptual data collection.

Ian Blay

Ian is a second year computer science student at the University of Western Ontario and is working as a programmer in the DSP lab.  Ian is the lead programmer on the handheld psychoacoustic workstation project. 

Julie Ladiges

Julie is a NSERC undergraduate research assistant at the NCA. She is third year undergraduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Western Ontario.

Other NCA labs include

Anechoic Chamber Assistive Devices | Child Amplification |
Child Hearing Research | Digital Signal Processing | Speech Communication | Electrophysiology | Hearing Research Clinic | Hearing Science  | Robert B. Johnston Aural Rehabilitations

NCA Director Prudence Allen

Dr. Prudence Allen
Director of the National Centre for Audiology
Phone: (519) 661-3901
Fax: (519) 661-3805 or pallen@uwo.ca