Shaikat Hossain, MSc
Shaikat Hossain, MSc
is doctoral student in the Cognition and Neuroscience program under Dr.
Peter Assmann at The University of Texas at Dallas.
His research interests lie in the field of
auditory neuroscience, psychoacoustics, and digital signal processing.
He is currently the TA for the undergraduate course Historical
Perspectives: Minds and Machines.
Shaikat authored
The Internet as a Tool for Studying the Collective
Unconscious and
Cochlear Implants and the Deaf Culture: A Transhumanist
Perspective
and coauthored
Spontaneously developed tail swellings (SDTS) influence
the accuracy of the hypo-osmotic swelling test (HOS-test)
in determining membrane integrity and viability
of human spermatozoa,
Musical Instrument Recognition in Combined Electric and
Acoustic Cochlear Implant Simulations,
Human Sperm Bioassay, and
Music Masking Speech In Cochlear Implant Simulations.
In addition to his scientific work, he is also involved in
electronic music. He has knowledge in a wide range of different music
production and engineering applications. It is his hope to one day be
able to tie his research interests into his musical endeavors, as
electronic music has a rich history of experimental ingenuity.
Listen to some of
his original music productions.
Shaikat earned his Bachelors of Arts in
Psychology at the University of Illinois in Chicago in 2009 and his
Masters of Science in Applied Cognition and Neuroscience at the
University of Texas at Dallas in 2010.
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