Meet the Team
Current Members
Principal Investigators
Professor, Communication Science and Disorders
Office: PCD 3021
rlutfi@usf.edu
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Jungmee Lee, PhD
AuD Program Director
Office: PCD 4021C
jungmeelee@usf.edu
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Dr. Lee's major training is in experimental psychology, specializing in auditory perception (psychoacoustics). The research focus has been on perception mechanisms of time-varying signals like speech and music (auditory temporal processing) in both normal and impaired hearing system. Recently her research has been expanded to combine knowledge of physiological measure (i.e., otoacoustic emissions) and psychoacoustics to better understand the auditory system.
PhD Students
Briana Rodriguez
Research Assistant
AuD & PhD Doctoral Student
Bcrodriguez@usf.edu
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Briana Rodriguez got her Bachelors in Communication Sciences and Disorders and Bachelors of Aging Sciences from the 国产短视频. She is a Ph.D. candidate, recipient of the McKnight Doctoral Fellowship, and audiology extern with ENT & Allergy Associates of Florida (ENTAAF). Her research interests lie in the areas of auditory perception/intervention and psychoacoustics. Briana has experience working with veteran, geriatric, and Spanish-speaking populations.
Lindsey Kummerer, AuD
Research Assistant
PhD Doctoral Student
Lkummerer@usf.edu
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Lindsey Kummerer earned her Doctor of Audiology degree from the University of South Florida (USF) in 2023. She is now pursuing her Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders at USF. Her current research interests are understanding speech-in-noise (SIN) difficulties and the individual differences when listening to SIN for both hearing impaired and normal hearing indidviduals. Her other interests include the different physiological measures of SIN difficulties, including otoacoustic emissions, the middle ear muscle reflex (MEMR) and extended high frequency measures.
AuD Doctoral Students
Abigail Lebedeker graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor's in Communication Sciences and Disorders in 2023. She is now pursuing her AuD as a second-year student. Her audiology doctoral project aims to examine extended high-frequency otoacoustic emissions data in musicians, evaluating its potential application as a subclinical tool for early detection of noise-induced hearing loss in musicians.
Research Assistant
AuD Doctoral Student
Mgzandona@usf.edu
Mike Zandona got his Bachelor's in Applied Linguistics and Japanese from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His current research interests include bilingual speech perception, speech perception in noise, and psychoacoustics.
Post-Baccalaureate Students
Undergraduate Students
Research Assistant
Undergraduate
huynh261@usf.edu
Lillian Simon
Research Assistant
Undergraduate
Lillian Simon is a fourth-year 国产短视频undergraduate student. Lillian is currently majoring
in
Psychology with a minor in Children鈥檚 Behavioral Healthcare. Her current academic
and research interests relate to the topics of speech language pathology,
hearing loss, and audiology.