Roya Abdi, M.S.

Position title: Doctoral Student

Email: rabdi@wisc.edu

Address:
Binaural Hearing and Speech Laboratory

Roya Abdi, M.S.

Roya is a PhD student in the Communication Sciences and Disorders department under the mentorship of Dr. Ruth Y. Litovsky. She received her B.S. in audiology from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Iran. She studied children with bilateral cochlear implants during her M.S. at the University of Melbourne in Australia. She worked as a clinical audiologist, using different behavioral and electrophysiological methods to evaluate people with hearing loss in general and children in specific. Her research interest is to understand the processing of binaural cues required for binaural hearing with a focus on sound localization skills in typical- and atypical-hearing people.