Gasser Elbanna

About Me

Hey There! Thank you for visitng my page. My name is Gasser Elbanna. I am a second-year PhD student in the Speech and Hearing, Bioscience and Technology (SHBT) Program at Harvard University. I work at the Laboratory for Computational Audition under the supervision of Josh McDermott.

Before that, I received the Bertarelli Fellowship to work as a graduate research intern at Harvard Medical School and MIT, working with Satrajit Ghosh in the Senseable Intillegence Group at the McGovern Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences. I did my masters at EPFL in Life Sciences Engineering with a specialization in Neuroscience and Neuro-engineering. I have a bachelor's degree in Systems and Biomedical Engineering from Cairo University.

I am interested in studying how the brain dynamically perceives, encodes, and integrates speech information over time. To explore this, I develop artificial neural network models of speech perception, allowing us to test theoretical principles and investigate mechanistic hypotheses. My long-term goal is to develop models that elucidate the synergy among speech perception, speech production, and language comprehension, providing a theoretical account of how sound maps to meaning.

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