Transforming Hearing Aids into Multifunctional Health and Communication Devices with Embedded Sensors and Artificial Intelligence

Event Date/Time

Friday, April 23, 2021 - 12:30

Location

Virtual
Please contact the MAE Department for the zoom information.

Series/Event Type

MAE Departmental Seminars

With over 466 million people suffering from disabling hearing loss, hearing aids are crucially important medical wearable devices. Untreated hearing loss has been linked to increased risks of social isolation, depression, dementia, fall injuries, and other health issues. In this talk, we will present a new class of multifunctional in-ear devices with integrated sensors and machine learning architectures which continuously classify sound and enhance speech, monitor physical and cognitive health, automatically detect and alert falls, stream audio from devices, translate languages, as well as serve as a personal assistant with connectivity to the cloud. Rapid progress in sensors and artificial intelligence is bringing an amazing array of smart devices and applications to the world. Now, these technologies are transforming the traditional hearing aids into multipurpose devices, helping people not only hear better, but live better lives in many more ways.

Speaker Bio

Dr. Achin Bhowmik is the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering at Starkey, a privately-held medical devices company with over 5,000 employees and operations in over 100 countries. Previously, he was the Vice President and General Manager of the Perceptual Computing Group at Intel Corporation. Dr. Bhowmik is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. He serves on the board of trustees for the National Captioning Institute, board of directors for OpenCV, industry advisory board for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, and board of advisors for the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Bhowmik was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellow and President-Elect of the Society for Information Display (SID). He has authored over 200 publications, including two books and 39 issued patents.

Faculty Host

Choueiri

Semester

Spring 2021