Rahul Shrivastav

CSD Chair, Professor
Phone: (517) 884-2258
Room: 115 Oyer Hall
Email: rahul@msu.edu

Bio

Rahul Shrivastav completed his undergraduate and graduate training in Speech and Hearing Sciences from the University of Mysore, India. He then completed his doctoral training in Speech and Hearing Sciences, with a minor in Cognitive Sciences, at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA. He joined the University of Florida as an Assistant Professor in 2002 where he directed the Voice Acoustics and Perception Laboratory. He was promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Florida in 2007. In 2005, he joined the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center as a Research Scientist, where he continues to be a part of the Oral-Motor Research Group within the Brain Rehabilitation Research Center (BRRC). In 2007, some intellectual property developed in his laboratory was spun-off into a start-up company called Audigence, Inc. He served on the Scientific Advisory Board of this company until 2012 when the IP was acquired by Cochlear, Corp. He also served as the Chief Scientist for Audigence from 2010-2011. In 2012, he joined the Michigan State University as Professor and Chair of the Department of Communicative Sciences & Disorders. His research has been funded by various national, state and private agencies including the NIH, VA RR&D, the Florida High Tech Corridor Council and Audigence, Inc. He serves on a number of professional organizations, both national and international, in various expert, administrative and executive roles. He has also been actively engaged in departmental, college and University administration and service.

Research Interests

His laboratory studies how people draw various kinds of information from speech, with a particular emphasis on speech-language disorders. This information is then used to design better healthcare and other applications such as for patient assessment, rehabilitation and measurement of treatment outcomes, improving performance of hearing aids, cochlear implants and mobile phones, or diagnostic and screening tools for a variety of diseases.

 Current projects include the study of:

1. Voice quality perception, especially that of disordered or dysphonic voice quality.

2. Speech intelligibility, especially changes in speech intelligiblity resulting from neurological diseases (e.g. Parkinson's disease) 

3. Optimization or fitting of digital hearing devices such as cochlear implants and hearing aids