Fields Auditory systems | Institution Boys Town | |
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Thesis “Aspects of Frequency and Intensity Coding in the Cochlea” (1994) Doctoral advisor Jozef J. Zwislocki and Robert L. Smith | ||
Monita Chatterjee is an auditory scientist at Boys Town National Research Hospital and is Director of the Auditory Prostheses & Perception Laboratory there. She investigates the basic mechanisms underlying auditory processing by cochlear implant listeners.
Biography
Chatterjee did her undergraduate studies at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India, graduating in 1987. After obtaining her PhD from Syracuse University in 1994, she spent 10 years, from 1994 to 2004, at the House Ear Institute, first as postdoctoral researcher, and then as a scientist, in the group led by Robert V. Shannon. She joined the University of Maryland, College Park in 2005 as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor in 2009. In 2012, she moved to Boys Town.
Chatterjee was a keynote speaker at the 105th convention of the Audio Engineering Society in 1998.