معرفی
Michael Kiefte is a Professor and Director of the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Dalhousie University, located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His academic roles include teaching, research leadership, and administrative oversight of clinical education programs.
Education:
- BA in Linguistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland
- PhD in Experimental Phonetics, University of Alberta
Research interests focus on speech perception and production, psychoacoustics, signal processing in speech research, hearing aid and cochlear implant technologies, auditory physiology, and speech processing. His work integrates experimental methods with computational modeling to explore how acoustic features influence speech understanding in clinical and natural contexts.
Recent publications emphasize vowel perception under varying acoustic conditions, applications of speech analysis in mental health, and modeling consonant-context effects in spontaneous speech. His research often employs large-scale datasets and web-based experiments to investigate perceptual phenomena.
As Director, Kiefte oversees clinical education programs, including clinics associated with the School, ensuring alignment between academic training and real-world clinical practice. He is also involved in interdisciplinary collaborations, such as the use of cochlear implant processing strategies and speech analysis in psychiatric contexts.
Lab/Team Affiliations: His research is conducted within the School's labs, focusing on auditory perception, speech technology, and clinical audiology.
