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Adrian KC Lee, Sc.D.

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Bio

Dr. Lee is head of the Laboratory for Auditory Brain Sciences & Neuroengineering at I-LABS and a Professor and Chair of the UW Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences. He received his BEng (Elec) from the University of New South Wales in Australia and his doctorate from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in Cambridge, MA. Prior to joining the Institute, he worked at the Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Center where he began combining his psychoacoustics research with multimodal neuroimaging techniques (using MEG, EEG, and MRI). His research focuses on mapping the spatiotemporal dynamics of the cortical network involved in attending and analyzing different acoustical signal in a crowded auditory scene (e.g., in a cocktail party). He is also interested in combining his backgrounds in engineering and neuroscience to identify neural biomarkers that can be used to classify different attentional states for controlling prosthetic and orthotic devices in a next-generation Brain Computer Interface design.

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Educational Background

09/03 – 07/07 Doctor of Science, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology Program, Cambridge, MA
03/98 – 12/02 Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia

Academic Positions Held

2020 – present Department Chair of Speech & Hearing Sciences University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2019 – present Professor of Speech & Hearing Sciences, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2015 – 2019 Associate Professor of Speech & Hearing Sciences, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2011 – 2015 Assistant Professor of Speech & Hearing Sciences, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences University of Washington, Seattle, WA
09/09 – 12/10 Research Fellow, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital
07/09 – 12/10 Research Associate, Boston University Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
01/09 – 06/09 Research Fellow Affiliate, Boston University Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
09/07 – 07/09 Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital

Professional Offices, Awards, and Affiliations

2018 – present Transpacific Hearing Center, Director
2017 Bloedel Center Traveling Scientist Award, University of Washington, WA
2014 Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program award
2012 The Royal Society International Exchanges program award, United Kingdom
2012 DoD Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program Award
2009 NIH National Institue on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Pathway to Independence Award
2008 Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, Massachusetts General Hospital Fund for Medical Discovery, Boston, MA, USA
2007 Advanced Multimodal Neuroimaging Training Program fellowship, Athinoula Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, USA
2007 Association for Research in Otolaryngology Graduate Student Travel Award
2002 First class honors for Bachelor of Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia
1998-2002 Co-op Scholarship, University of New South Wales, Australia
1998-2002 Academic Excellence, University of New South Wales, Australia

Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications

Jirikowic, T, J Thorne, S McLaughlin, T Waddington, AKC Lee, S Astley Hemingway (2020). “Prevalence and patterns of sensory processing behaviors in a large clinical sample of children with prenatal alcohol exposure,” Research in Developmental Disabilities, 100:103617

McLaughlin S, J Thorne, T Jirikowic, AKC Lee, S Astley Hemingway (2019). “Listening difficulties in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: More than a problem of audibility,” Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62: 1532-1548. doi: 10.1044/2018_JSLHR-H-18-0359

McLaughlin S, E Larson, AKC Lee (2019). “Neural Switch Asymmetry in Feature-Based Auditory Attention Tasks,” Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 20(2): 205-215.

McCloy D, AKC Lee (2019). “EEG-derived phoneme confusion matrices show the fit between phonological feature systems and brain responses to speech,” Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34(5): 662-676.

McCloy D, E Larson, AKC Lee (2018). “Auditory attention switching with listening difficulty: Behavioral and pupillometric measures,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144(5): 2764-2771. doi: 10.1121/1.5078618

Lee AKC, E Larson, CW Miller (2018). “Effects of hearing loss on maintaining and switching attention,” Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 104: 787-791. doi: 10.3813/AAA.919224

Maddox RK, AKC Lee (2018). “Auditory brainstem responses to continuous natural speech in human listeners,” eNeuro : ENEURO.0441-17.2018. PMC5806592. doi:10.1523/ENEURO.0441-17.2018

Atilgan H, SM Town, KC Wood, GP Jones, RK Maddox, AKC Lee, JK Bizley (2018). “Integration of visual information in auditory cortex promotes auditory scene analysis through multisensory binding,” Neuron, 97(3): 640-655. PMC5814679. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.12.034

Mirbagheri M, L Atlas, AKC Lee (2018). “Regression Factor Analysis with an Application to Continuous HRIR Measurement,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 26(2): 415-421. doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2017.2780989

McCloy D, BK Lau, E Larson, KAI Pratt, AKC Lee (2017). “Pupillometry shows the effort of auditory attention switching,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(4): 2440-2451. PMC5848839. doi: 10.1121/1.4979340 [J32]

Hasegawa-Johnson M, P Jyothi, D McCloy, M Mirbagheri, G di Liberto, A Das, B Ekin, C Liu, V Manohar, H Tang, EC Lalor, N Chen, P Hager, T Kekona, R Sloan, AKC Lee, (2017). “ASR for under-resourced languages from probabilistic transcription,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 25(1): 50-63. doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2016.2621659

Wronkiewicz M, E Larson, AKC Lee (2016). “Incorporating modern neuroscience findings to improve brain-computer interfaces: tracking auditory attention.” Journal of Neural Engineering, 13:056017. doi:10.1088/1741-2560/13/5/056017

McCloy DR, ED Larson, B Lau, AKC Lee (2016). “Temporal alignment of pupillary response with stimulus events via deconvolution.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America—Express Letters, 139(3): EL57-62. PMC5392052. doi: 10.1121/1.4943787

Bizley J, RK Maddox, AKC Lee (2016). “Defining Auditory-Visual Objects: Behavioral Tests and Physiological Mechanisms.” Trends in Neuroscience, 39(2): 74-85. PMC4738154. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2015.12.007

McCloy D, AKC Lee (2015). “Auditory attention strategy depends on target linguistic properties and spatial configuration.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138(1): 97-114. PMC4499044. doi: 10.1121/1.4922328

Wronkiewicz M, E Larson, AKC Lee (2015). “Leveraging anatomical information to improve transfer learning in braincomputer interfaces.” Journal of Neural Engineering, 12: 046027. PMC4527978. doi: 10.1088/1741-2560/12/4/046027

Maddox RK, H Atilgan, J Bizley, AKC Lee (2015). “Auditory selective attention is enhanced by a task-irrelevant temporally coherent visual stimulus in human listeners.” eLife, 4: e04995. PMC4337603. doi: 10.7554/eLife.04995

Sacchet M, R LaPlante, Q Wan, D Pritchett, AKC Lee, M Hämäläinen, C Moore, C Kerr, and S R Jones (2015). “Attention Drives Synchronization of Alpha and Beta Rhythms Between Right Inferior Frontal and Primary Sensory Neocortex.” Journal of Neuroscience, 35: 2074-2082. PMC4315835. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1292-14.2015

Maddox RK, DA Pospisil, GC Stecker, AKC Lee (2014). “Directing Eye Gaze Enhances Auditory Spatial Cue Discrimination,” Current Biology, 24(7): 784-752. PMC3977936. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.02.021

Larson E, RK Maddox, AKC Lee (2014). “Improving spatial localization in MEG inverse imaging by leveraging intersubject anatomical differences.” Frontiers in Neuroscience, 8: Article 330. PMC4202703 doi: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00330

Bharadwaj HM, AKC Lee, BG Shinn-Cunningham (2014). “Measuring auditory selective attention using frequency tagging,” Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 8: Article 6. PMC3913882. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2014.00006

Larson E, AKC Lee (2014). “Potential use of MEG to understand abnormalities in auditory function in clinical populations,” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8: Article 151. PMC3952190. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00151

Larson E, AKC Lee (2014). “Switching auditory attention using spatial and non-spatial features recruits different cortical networks,” Neuroimage, 84: 681-687. PMC3856289. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.09.061

Lee AKC, E Larson, R Maddox, B Shinn-Cunningham (2014). “Using neuroimaging to understand the cortical mechanisms of auditory selective attention,” Hearing Research, 307: 111-120. PMC3952190. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2013.06.010

Marinkovic K, E Rickenbacher, S Azma, E Artsy, AKC Lee (2013). “Effects of acute alcohol intoxication on saccadic conflict and error processing,” Psychopharmacology, 230(3): 487-97. PMC3869380. doi: 10.1007/s00213-013-3173-y

Larson E, AKC Lee (2013). “Influence of preparation time and pitch separation in switching of auditory attention between streams.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America-Express Letters, 134(2): EL165-171. PMC3724725. doi: 10.1121/1.4812439

Manoach DS, AKC Lee, MS Hämäläinen, KA Dyckman, JS Friedman, M Vangel, DC Goff, JJS Barton (2013). "Anomalous use of context during task preparation in schizophrenia: a magnetoencephalography study," Biological Psychiatry, 73(10): 967-975. PMC3641151. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.12.018

Agam Y, C Carey, JJS Barton, KA Dyckman, AKC Lee, M Vangel, DS Manoach (2013). “Network dynamics underlying speed-accuracy trade-offs in response to errors,” PLoS ONE, 8(9): e73692. PMC3772006. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073692

Larson, E, AKC Lee (2013). "The cortical dynamics underlying effective switching of auditory spatial attention." Neuroimage, 64:365-370.

Maddox, RK, W Cheung, AKC Lee (2012). “Selective attention in an overcrowded auditory scene: implications for auditory-based brain-computer interface design.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America—Express Letters, 135(5): EL385-390.

Bizley J, B Shinn-Cunningham, AKC Lee (2012). "Nothing is irrelevant in a noisy world: Sensory illusions reveal obligatory within-and across-modality integration." Journal of Neuroscience, 32 (39):13402-10.

Lee, AKC, E Larson, RK Maddox (2012). "Mapping the cortical dynamics involved in auditory attention using simultaneous MEG/EEG and anatomically-constrained minimum-norm estimates." Journal of Visualized Experiments: e4262.

Agam, Y, MS Hämäläinen, AKC Lee, K Dyckman, J Friedman, M Isom, N Makris, DS Manoach (2011). "Multimodal neuroimaging dissociates hemodynamic and electrophysiological correlates of error processing." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108 (42): 17556-17561. PMC3198335

Lee, AKC, MS Hämäläinen, KA Dyckman, JJS Barton, DS Manoach (2011). Saccadic preparation in frontal eye field is modulated by distinct trial history effects as revealed by magnetoencephalography, Cerebral Cortex, 21 (2): 245-253.

Lee, AKC, A Deane-Pratt, B Shinn-Cunningham (2009). Localization of objects in auditory scenes, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126 (5): 2543-2555.

Lee, AKC, B Shinn-Cunningham (2008). Effects of reverberant spatial cues on attention-dependent object formation, Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 9 (1): 150-160.

Lee, AKC, B Shinn-Cunningham (2008). Effects of frequency disparities on trading of an ambiguous tone between two competing auditory objects, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(6): 4340-4351.

Lee, AKC, S Babcock, B Shinn-Cunningham (2008). Perceptual competition between spatial and harmonicity cues assessed through a matching paradigm,Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. 9 (1): 388-397.

Shinn-Cunningham, BG, AKC Lee, AJ Oxenham (2007). Auditory non-allocation of a sound element lost in perceptual competition, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 104 (29): 12223-12227.

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