FACULTY YING-YEE KONG
ABIGAIL KOPPES
Associate Professor, Speech Language Pathology and Audiology; affiliated faculty, Bioengineering
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2013 che.neu.edu/people/koppes-abigail
PhD, University of California, Irvine, 2004 bioe.neu.edu/people/kong-ying-yee Scholarship focus: auditory perception in hearing-impaired and cochlear-implant listeners
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Y.-Y. Kong, A. Mullangi, K. Kokkinakis Classification of Fricative Consonants for Speech Enhancement in Hearing Devices, PLOS One, 9(4), 2014, e95001 R.W. Schlosser, Howard C. Shane, Ying-Yee Kong, et al. Effects of Environmental Sounds on the Guessability of Animated Graphic Symbols, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 30(4), 2014, 298-313 T. Lee, S. Yu, M. Yuan, T. Wong, Y.-Y. Kong The Effect of Enhancing Temporal Periodicity Cues on Cantonese Tone Recognition by Cochlear Implantees, International Journal of Audiology, 53(8), 2014, 546-557 Y.-Y. Kong, A. Mullangi Using a Vocoder-based Frequency-lowering Method and Spectral Enhancement to Improve Place-of-articulation Perception for Hearing-impaired Listeners, Ear and Hearing, 34, 2013, 300-312 Y.-Y. Kong, A. Mullangi On the Development of a Frequency-Lowering System that Enhances Place-of-Articulation Perception, Speech Communication 54, 2012, 147-160
SELECTED RESEARCH PROJECTS Hearing Acuity Cognitive Aging and Memory for Speech Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health Speech Perception with Combined Electric and Acoustic Stimulation Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health
Scholarship focus: bioelectric medicine, development of novel interventions and tissue engineered platforms for nerve regeneration and repair, body-on-a-chip for enteric-gut interactions
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS A.N. Koppes, K.W. Keating, A.L. McGregor, R.A. Koppes, K.R. Kearns, et. al. Robust Neurite Extension Following Exogenous Electrical Stimulation within Single Walled Carbon Nanotube-composite Hydrogels, Acta Biomaterialia, 39, 2016, 34-43 S. Hosic, S.K. Murthy, A.N. Koppes Microfluidic Sample Preparation for Single Cell Analysis, Analytical Chemistry, 88(1), 2015, 354-380 A.N. Koppes, D.M. Thompson Neural Innervation of Engineered Musculoskeletal Tissues, Regenerative Engineering of Musculoskeletal Tissues and Interfaces, 2015, 293-323 D.M. Thompson, A.N. Koppes, J.G. Hardy, C.E. Schmidt Electrical Stimuli in the Central Nervous System Microenvironment, Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering,16, 2014, 397-430 A.N. Koppes, N.W. Zaccor, C.J Rivet, L.A. Williams, J.M. Piselli, R.J. Gilbert, D.M. Thompson Neurite Outgrowth on Electrospun PLLA Fibers is Enhanced by Exogenous Electrical Stimulation, Journal of Neural Engineering, 11(4), 2014, 046002 A.N. Koppes, A.L. Nordberg, G. Paolillo, H. Darwish, et al. Electrical Stimulation of Schwann Cells Promotes Sustained Increases in Neurite Outgrowth, Tissue Engineering A, 20(3-4), 2014, 494-506 B. Behan, D. DeWitt, D. Bogdanowicz, A.N. Koppes, et al. Cytotoxicity of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Schwann Cells in 2D and 3D Microenvironments towards the Development of an Electrically Conductive Hydrogel for Neural Engineering, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 96(1), 2011, 46-57 A.N. Koppes, A.M. Seggio, D.M. Thompson Neurite Outgrowth is Significantly Increased by the Simultaneous Presentation of Schwann Cells and Moderate Exogenous Electric Fields, Journal of Neural Engineering, 8(4), 2011, 046023
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