Advisory Board

Tobias Riede

Advisory Board Member

Tobias Riede is currently an Associate Professor of Physiology at Midwestern University and formerly a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Utah. He conducts research on the physiology and functional morphology of sound production in vertebrates. Comparative analysis of living animals provides a useful tool for the understanding of the mechanisms of vocal communication, including humans and the evolution of human speech. Dr. Riede holds a DVM from Free University in Berlin and a Ph.D from Humboldt University.

Eric Hunter

Advisory Board Member

Eric Hunter serves as the chairperson/DEO of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Iowa, as well as Harriet B. and Harold S. Brady Chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences. He previously served as the Senior Associate Dean for Research in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences and the Director of the Trifecta Initiative for Interdisciplinary Health Research (a joint research initiative of the College of Engineering, College of Nursing, and the College of Communication Arts & Sciences), as well as an MSU Foundation professor in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders.

Jack Jiang

Advisory Board Member

Dr. Jiang is Director of International Collaborative Research and Translational Research for the Department of Surgery, and he is Director of the Otolaryngic Biomedical Engineering Research Center and the Laryngeal Physiology Lab. He has published more than 230 original manuscripts in the area of voice measurement and disorders, and serves on the editorial boards for The Laryngoscope, Journal of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology, and Journal of Voice. He has served on Study Sections for the Center for Scientific Review of NIH since 1998, and he is a 2001 recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Ted Mau

Advisory Board Member

The son of an engineer, Dr. Mau graduated from Harvard summa cum laude in biochemistry, then earned a Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He attended Harvard Medical School for his M.D., then returned to UCSF for residency training in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery, winning three research prizes. After residency, Dr. Mau completed a fellowship at Vanderbilt University in laryngology and care of the professional voice. He joined UT Southwestern in 2008 as its first full-time voice specialist. In 2010, Dr. Mau received a Young Faculty/Practitioner Award from the American Laryngological Association.

Robin Samlan

Advisory Board Member

Robin Samlan earned her PhD at The University of Arizona and was a postdoctoral scholar in the Voice Perception Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to her doctoral work, she was a speech-language pathologist at the Johns Hopkins University and University of Wisconsin, where she specialized in disorders associated with the voice and airway, head and neck cancer, and cleft palate. Dr. Samlan is the director of the Voice Research Laboratory. The aim of her work is to improve voice evaluation and therapy paradigms for breathy dysphonia.

Zhaoyan Zhang

Advisory Board Member

Dr. Zhaoyan Zhang is a distinguished professor of head and neck surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the recipient of the Quintana Research from the Voice Foundation and a Fellow at the Acoustical Society of America. He has published over 50 papers in his career and is a leading expert in voice and speech science research.

Karin Cox

Advisory Board Member

Karin Titze Cox, MA CCC/SLP, Vocologist/Voice Clinic Director received her MA-vocology track certificate from the University of Iowa. At Iowa she was mentored by Dr. Kitty Verdolini, Dr. Linda Carrol and Dr. Ingo Titze. Her undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University in Communication Disorders also included a minor in music and vocal performance with Dr. Rebecca Wilberg and summer work with Dr. Steven Gray’s clinic at the University of Utah. Licensed in Utah and California, she’s currently Voice Clinic Director of ENT Specialists and enjoys training and collaborating with future vocologists. She also educates various outside organizations and is involved in research at the National Center of Voice and Speech while assisting as an instructor of the Stroboscopy portion of the Summer Vocology Institute.

Luc Mongeau

Advisory Board Member

Dr. Luc Mongeau is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University since 2006. He obtained B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He obtained a Ph.D. from the Graduate Program in Acoustics at the Pennsylvania State University in 1991. He then was a postdoctoral researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, before joining the faculty of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University in 1993. His research has spanned a variety of topics related to acoustics, including wind noise in road vehicles, thermoacoustic refrigeration, aeroacoustics of flight vehicles, passive and active noise and vibration control, combustion noise, flow- and friction induced vibrations, turbomachinery noise, and the aerodynamics and biomechanics of voice production.

Michael Döllinger

Advisory Board Member

Professor Döllinger graduated in 2000 at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) with a Master in Mathematics. In 2002 he finished his PhD studies on optimizing a biomechanical model on laryngeal dynamics. From 2003 – 2005 he held a post-doc position at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Between 2005 and 2008 he was senior scientist at the Divison for Phonaitrics and Pediatric Audiology at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Since June 2008 he is professor for “Computational Medicine” at FAU.

Nathalie Henrich

Advisory Board Member

Director of Research at the CNRS, choirmaster and singer, Nathalie HENRICH BERNARDONI is a scientist passionate about the human voice in all its forms of expression. Her research focuses on the experimental and clinical phonetic description of speech and singing, on the physiological and physical characterization of various vocal techniques (lyrical singing, contemporary music, world songs), on the management of vocal effort in speech and singing, as well as the development and improvement of non-invasive experimental techniques for analyzing the human voice.

Matias Zañartu

Advisory Board Member

Dr. Zañartu is interested in the development of digital signal processing, system modeling, and biomedical engineering tools that involve speech, audio, and acoustics. His recent research efforts have revolved around developing quantitative models that describe nonlinear effects in human speech production, and applying these physiological descriptions for the development of communication and clinical technologies. He holds a BS degree in Acoustical Engineering, and MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Brandon Pack

Advisory Board Member

With a background in computer programming, undergraduate degrees in information systems and computer science, as well as a master’s degree in business administration and years of management experience, Brandon has a unique set of skills that have allowed me the opportunity to see across organizational boundaries and solve complex problems and deliver great products.

Jan Svec

Jan G. Švec is a Czech physicist performing basic and clinical research on production of human voice. He holds MSc degree in fine mechanics and optics from Palacky University in Olomouc, CZ, and a double PhD degree in biophysics and in medical sciences from Palacky University and University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and the University of Groningen. Currently he is a professor at the Palacky University in Olomouc and serves also as an associate research scientist at the clinical Voice and Hearing Centre in Prague.

Frank Guenther

Dr. Guenther is one of the foremost researchers in the world on computational and cognitive neuroscience. Dr. Guenther holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri where he graduated summa cum laude and was ranked first overall in the College of Engineering. He received an M.S. in electrical engineering from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in cognitive and neural systems from Boston University. He is currently a professor of speech, language, and hearing sciences and biomedical engineering at Boston University.