Oded Ghitza

Oded Ghitza, PhD is a Research Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University, affiliated with the Hearing Research Center (HRC) and collaborating with the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience and Max Planck Society. His work integrates computational modeling, psychophysics, and neuroimaging to study speech perception mechanisms. Key areas include neuronal oscillations' role in decoding speech, cortical computation principles, and applications to hearing impairment modeling and automatic speech recognition (ASR).

Education: B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University. Awards include Acoustical Society of America Fellowship (1998) and IEEE Senior Membership (1993). Research focuses on linking brain rhythms (delta/theta oscillations) to speech processing, with emphasis on prosody, syllabic parsing, and MEG signal analysis. Collaborates across disciplines, combining experimental data with computational models to advance understanding of auditory perception.

Publications span over 40 peer-reviewed articles in journals like eNeuro, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, and IEEE Transactions. Current projects explore cortical oscillators as pacemakers for speech decoding, and developing ASR systems informed by neurophysiological insights. His work bridges auditory neuroscience with engineering applications, addressing challenges in speech intelligibility under noise and hearing impairment scenarios.