Australian Hearing Initiative - Bringing AI to Electronic Hearing

GDG AI for Science - Australia

Learn how this special coalition (Google, Cochlear, National Acoustics Laboratory, The Shephard Centre, NextSense and Macquarie University) is exploring new applications of computational modelling and machine learning in the context of electronic hearing.

Mar 11, 2025, 10:00 – 11:00 PM (UTC)

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Key themes

AIAccessibilityTech Talk / Meetup

About this event

Australian Hearing Initiative (AHI) is an ambitious collaboration between teams at Google and world leading organisations in the hearing accessibility field. Current hearing aids work well in relatively quiet environments but fail to provide adequate support in acoustically complex environments such as social settings where they are most required. The AHI projects are focused on new applications of computational modelling and machine learning to develop listening and communications technologies that overcome this limitation, with a focus on more customised/precision hearing healthcare.

Speakers

  • Simon Carlile

    Google

    Research Scientist

  • Jason Mikiel-Hunter

    Macquarie University

    Postdoctoral Fellow in Acoustic Hearing

  • Maryam Hosseini

    Cochlear

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Rob Schonberger

    Google

    Software Engineer

Organizers

  • Kunal Ostwal

    University of Sydney

    PhD Candidate

  • Lifi Huang

    Monash University

    Organiser

  • Mauricio Marrone

    Macquarie University

    Associate Professor

  • Thomas Crow

    Plant Man