Brian Gygi, Ph.D.

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Richmond, CA 94804 USA

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Email: advfu8@r.postjobfree.com

Core Qualifications and Skills

Research design, management, and mentoring

Statistics and data analysis (R, Statistica, SAS)

Quantitative experimental design and

programming (MATLAB)

Qualitative research (SurveyMonkey)

Subject recruitment

Reporting and presenting findings

Report writing

Interviewing

Research Employment History

5/2012–3/2014

Senior Research Fellow, National Institute for Health Research, National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing, Nottingham, UK.

User-Centered Auditory Research

● Developed a Research program on Effects of Background Sounds on Hearing Aid Users.

● Designed studies, ensured compliance with regulatory bodies, handled study logistics, analyzed data and wrote up findings for publication.

● Presented research findings at over 25 national and international conferences

● Directed and published research reports with 24 undergraduate research co-authors 9/2011–3/2012

Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Mobility Fellow, Laboratory of Perception and Psychology, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.

Naturalistic Auditory Research

● Conducted Research into semantic and contextual factors in the perception of sequences of environmental sounds.

10/2008–8/2011

Associate Director, Speech and Hearing Research Laboratory, Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System, Martinez, CA.

● Responsible for all aspects of laboratory management, such as budgeting, personnel, experiment design, subject recruiting, compliance documentation, and equipment. 7/2007–4/2015

Health Research Specialist, Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System, Martinez, CA.

● Funded under Veterans Administration Merit Review Entry Program (MREP) Award 06-12-00446

“Contextual factors in environmental sound perception among the elderly.” Tested the ability of elderly listeners to use situational information from everyday listening situations to identify variety of salient environmental sounds.

9/2006 – 7/2007

Research Associate, East Bay Institute for Research & Education, Martinez, CA.

● Conducted studies in the Speech and Hearing Research Laboratory investigating the ability of elderly to attend to concurrent multi-talker speech both selectively and in a divided manner. 4/2005– 8/2006

Postdoctoral Researcher, Acoustic Research Institute, Vienna, Austria.

● Funded under an Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) Development Grant. Developed automatic signal processing routines to classify and evaluate train noises for annoyance levels. 3/2002– 3/2005

Postgraduate Fellow, East Bay Institute for Research & Education, Martinez, CA.

● Funded by the National Institute of Health – NIA AG RO1-07998, researched cognitive factors affecting environmental sound identification, such as typicality and similarity to other environmental sounds. 5/1995– 8/2001

Research Assistant, Hearing and Communication Laboratory, Indiana University.

● Designed experiments, generated stimuli, recruited and ran subjects and analyzed data. In addition, was a programmer for the Hearing Aid Performance Inventory (HAPI), in Foxpro. Education:

Ph.D. 2001, Indiana University, Sensory Psychology and Cognitive Science Technical Expertise:

● Signal processing, computer programming, experimental design, data analysis and statistics, audiometric testing, sound equipment calibration.

● Excel, R, SQL, Matlab, Visual Basic, Visual Foxpro, Praat scripting language, C, C++, BASIC, FORTRAN, HTML, basic PHP and Javascript.

Other Relevant Experience:

2/2022–6/2022 Field Data Collector, InTouchInsight. Worked as a subcontractor on a project for Niantic Inc., gathering field data for augmented reality applications. Performed 3-D scans of various Bay Area locations using LIDAR, an iPhone app. 1/2020–present Lecturer, Alliant International University. Teach Affective and Cognitive Bases of Behavior, a core course for the graduate students in Psychology. 8/2017– 8/2019 Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, Music Department. Taught Music Cognition, an undergraduate Cognitive Science course.

Representative Publications:

Gygi B. & Hall, D. (2015). The Effect of Background Sounds on Hearing Aids Users: a Scoping Study. International Journal of Audiology. Early Online, Sept. 2015. Gygi, B., Giordano, B., Shafiro, V., Kharkhurin, A., Zhang, P. (2015). Predicting the temporal dynamics of bouncing events through sound. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138(1), 457-66. Gygi B. & Shafiro, V. (2014). Spatial and Temporal Modifications of Multitalker Speech Can Improve Speech Perception in Older Adults. Hearing Research 310: 76-86. Gygi B. & Shafiro, V. (2013). Auditory and Cognitive Effects of Aging on Perception of Environmental Sounds in Natural Auditory Scenes. Journal of Speech, Hearing and Language Research. 56, 1373–1388.