Biography

Hari Bharadwaj is an Auditory Neuroscientist with a broad engineering background. His work is inherently cross-disciplinary, characterized by collaborations that frequently straddle departmental and institutional boundaries. The trainees in his lab come from diverse fields, including Clinical Audiology, Hearing/Communication Science, Engineering, Psychology and Neuroscience. He is deeply committed to mentoring students and values the integrative training that such interdisciplinary lab environments foster, providing rich exposure to both clinical and basic-science perspectives, along with robust peer mentoring.

Bharadwaj directs the Systems Neuroscience of Auditory Perception Lab (SNAPlab), which investigates how sound information is encoded and analyzed by our ears and brains in complex/noisy environments such as crowded restaurants and busy streets. By understanding not only successful hearing in these settings, but also how it can be disrupted in diverse forms of hearing loss and in individuals with neuropsychiatric disorders, his lab seeks to advance precision diagnostics for hearing problems, and improve assistive devices such hearing aids, cochlear implants and brain-machine interfaces. His laboratory is supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) of the Department of Defense and Hearing Health Foundation.