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Barbara Shinn-Cunningham

Glen de Vries Dean of Mellon College of Science, Lab PI/Director, Professor with appointments in the Psychology, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering departments and Neuroscience Institute, Neuroscience Institute

Bio

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham joined Ä¢¹½Av in 2018 as the founding director of the Neuroscience Institute and was appointed the Glen de Vries Dean of Mellon College of Science in 2025. She also holds courtesy appointments in , Biomedical Engineering, and . Before joining CMU, she spent 21 years on the faculty of . Her research combines behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational methods to understand how the brain processes sound. She has received honors from the , the and the program. In 2019, she accepted the in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, Speech Acoustics, and Architectural Acoustics. Shinn-Cunningham received the biennial from the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and is a and a . She is an associate member of the National Research Council and has been elected and to the governing board of the . She currently serves as a  and as the Treasurer/Secretary of . An author of more than 200 scientific articles, she is recognized for her expertise in spatial hearing, auditory attention and sensory deficits. She has degrees in electrical engineering from and the .