Ruth Litovsky, Ph.D. - Director
BHSL at 2026 Summer Special Olympics! The Binaural Hearing and Speech Lab volunteered the 2026 State Summer Olympics at University Wisconsin- White Water. We had the lovely opportunity to meet and participate with the amazing athletes who competed this year! Our Research Specialists Stephanie Selner and Eva Walsh were able to volunteer as referees for …
The UW–Madison Postdoctoral Association awards Dr. Aditi Gargeshwari the Postdoc Excellence Awards to for her excellence in mentoring, teaching, and service. Dr. Garageshwari is a 3rd year Postdoc in the Binaural Hearing and Speech Lab and has mentored many graduate and undergraduate students in EEG and auditory research. Her dedication to both research and teaching …
Congratulations to BHSL doctoral student Didulani Dantanarayana for receiving the Travel Award from Acoustical Society of America (ASA)! Didulani presented her student travel award session at the 190th annual ASA. The session titled “Blossoming Sciences and Cultivating Researchers in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics” focused on her dissertation work on speech recognition, spatial release from masking, …
Congratulations to Aditi! She participated in the campus-wide Blitz Talk Competition at the 10th Annual UW–Madison Postdoctoral Research Symposium, held in celebration of Postdoc Appreciation Week (September 15–19, 2025). Aditi won the People’s Choice Award and a cash prize for her Blitz Talk on evaluating the neural processes for binaural cues. The picture was taken …
Congratulations to Anshu! The picture was taken at the award ceremony.
Congratulations to our lab director Dr. Ruth Litovsky on being selected to deliver the annual Niparko Memorial Lecture at CI2024 Vancouver. For details, please click here.
Dr. Ruth Litovsky recently gave an interview to the “Sound Perspectives” essay series “Conversation with a Colleague,” published by Acoustical Society of America. The published interview can be found here.
Our lab director, Dr. Ruth Litovsky, has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of Ear and Hearing beginning January 1, 2023. Congratulations, Dr. Litovsky! The official announcement from American Auditory Society can be found here.
Ruth Litovsky, our lab director, was honored with the prestigious Silver Medal Award from the Acoustical Society of America in the area of Psychological and Physiological Acoustics. The Silver Medal Award is presented to individuals for contributions to the advancement of science, engineering, or human welfare through the application of acoustic principles, or through research …
Lab director Ruth Litovsky and BHSL post-doc Xin Zhou were interviewed by the Waisman Center news team to talk about the work our lab is doing with functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Check out the article here!